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In HTML, double quotes should be “ and ”. I don’t think this is a matter of opinion, it’s just the correct usage. Single quotes should be ‘ and ’ (the latter also for apostrophes).

The reason your keyboard quotes (straight quotes) are as they are is to avoid the need for the two extra keys that would be required on a typewriter. HTML does not have this limitation, so take advantage of the time your font creator put in to getting the appearance and spacing of their curly quotation marks correct.

Now seems a good opportunity to recommend Butterick’s Practical Typography:

http://practicaltypography.com/straight-and-curly-quotes.html