Techies and advertising agencies will try to impress you with their high-tech capabilities. They will try to convince you that your business must remain current, when in reality, they are placing limits your potential customer base. The following browser statistics come from access counters for the University of Illinois, engineering student home pages, for March 1997. These numbers are further skewed by a number of other variables. The statistics were gathered by a web server in a high tech environment.
Many surfers browse with graphics turned off.
Many surfers have turned off ActiveX and Java for security reasons. Just remember that it is your web site. You make the decisions. Insist on pages that are designed to work on any browser and you will get pages that are visible to a larger customer base.