Author here :) You are right that it is possible to deal with them. I never said it isn't possible that an old IE can work, it is just more work and sometimes a

Author here :) You are right that it is possible to deal with them. I never said it isn't possible that an old IE can work, it is just more work and sometimes a bit messy. As I mentioned I am aware that there is the approach regenerating the site on a server but I'm not sold on it. I didn't want to discuss static site generators again, so I only went with the two major advantages. What did I miss? Easy setup / deployment is IMHO implicit as well as the fact that basically nothing on the server can break. I think adoption and development in this direction isn't as attractive for most people. Initially you lose some comfort till you have a system around your site supporting it and than you still face the fact that only a handful people are willing to use your tool till you add a webinterface and other things which are expected to be included in mainstream solutions. I think there are some quite popular and intelligent static site generators, they are just not called this way. Wordpress with Supercache or flask-frozen e.x.