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Haha, yes I think most readers would interpret them as fs rather than ſs. I assume you're using some sort of CSS to achieve the st's and ct's, right? I think old conventions like this are a good thing to revive, it raises a few eyebrows and gets people thinking about typography. That can only be a good thing.
I do like a bit of fancy typography. I'm not a typography dork, but I know enough to appreciate it. It's very exciting that CSS and Web browsers are mature enough to support typographical features like these - and it really is just flat text + CSS. You can copy and paste the text into a text editor and you'll see discrete letters instead of a single joined-up glyph or an image.