Technical Restrictions

[House Quake]

Are there still a significant amount of people who...
Are still on Dial-up (or otherwise under 300kbps)?
Are restricted to a 800 x 600 screen resolution?
Aren't using 'at least' Firefox or IE6?

[detourne_me]

no. only when i use my eee-pc (but i dont use it for ff stuff). no, google chrome all the way.
looking forward to the new site

[herodad1]

is npi getting ready to burst forth?

[Gremlin]

Nobody has any problems at all ever.

Please release the site now.

[Midnight]

Comprehensive stats here.

[daglob]

I still use dial-up.

However, my brother lives less than a mile away, and he has a DSL, and I have two friends that have cable modems or access to T1 lines. I usually locate what I want, and if it is too big, I just wait.

[Epimethee]

Are there still a significant amount of people who...
Are still on Dial-up (or otherwise under 300kbps)?
Are restricted to a 800 x 600 screen resolution?
Aren't using 'at least' Firefox or IE6?

General web stats rarely apply exactly to a specific site; for example, W3School, which relies party on its own logs, shows a stronger contingent of "developer" browsers than most general public sites do, in my experience. With that said, from the sites I've been working on and from general stats:

Dialup would be at ~10% (but the variation can be important, depending on the type of site and the region. And while it's usually still a negligible amount, there are more and more people using smartphones (OK, iPhones) or shared Wifi hotspots, which can be rather slow.

800 x 600 or less seems to be at ~ 10% again. But again too, there are smartphones with much lower screen resolutions. Obviously, smartphones/PDAs might not matter for the type of site you have in mind.

Users are almost all using at least IE 6; unless you have a very specific audience or requirements, ignore the poor luddites stuck with anything older (except for the eventual text-mode browsers for the visually impaired). However, even if IE 6 still hangs on (~15% marketshare), if your design is in the least complex, I would suggest supporting this version only minimally, as its renderer is so buggy and non-standard that you'll end up spending *a lot* more time coding around its weaknesses. (Aside: Folks, please upgrade your browser, so website development time can be spent more on quality control and implementing features than on debugging for IE6.) IE 7 and the upcoming IE8 are a big step forward; however, even then IE 8 is still going to lag behind competing browsers by a few years.

[GogglesPizanno]

However, even if IE 6 still hangs on (~15% marketshare), if your design is in the least complex, I would suggest supporting this version only minimally, as its renderer is so buggy and non-standard that you'll end up spending *a lot* more time coding around its weaknesses. (Aside: Folks, please upgrade your browser, so website development time can be spent more on quality control and implementing features than on debugging for IE6.) IE 7 and the upcoming IE8 are a big step forward; however, even then IE 8 is still going to lag behind competing browsers by a few years.

A big Giant heavy ditto.

[stumpy]

I still have IE 6, but I rarely use it, aside from Windows Update. It is my "low security" browser (relative to me; it's set to prompt before running anything) when I have to visit a site where the settings I keep for Firefox won't let me in.