Why the hell can't that guy's website support browsers developed before 2009? It's all text. Is that crazy italic on link hover (great bit of usability, that) not supported by pre-HTML5 browsers?
Maybe it's not blind elitism, maybe it's forethought elitism.
Meh. It's not that big of a deal. You can still see the content and the content is done logically so there aren't any crazy layout issues in plaintext.
Also, this seems to be happening because of his breakpoint at width <= 1024px I believe. Confirmed this on both Chrome dev and Firefox Aurora.
Actually, it comes down to font handling (I'm the guy with the site). Webfonts, CSS3 positioning, and HTML5 semantic are not supported in browsers older than 2009. So you can read the stuff but it doesn't necessarily look as good.
Maybe it's not blind elitism, maybe it's forethought elitism.