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That depends on the page.
Some people build pages to be readable in microscopic windows. Some build them that go off the screen on my 23" widescreeen. Some set the text in fonts so big you get ten characters to the line, and some set it in microscopic point sizes that you have to enlarge just to read.
Anyone who knows their job builds liquid layouts that will resize themselves to whatever your screen or window size happens to be, have civilized text that won't break if you control-wheel or whatever your browser's size changing is, and deal gracefully with IE's bugs (IE6 needs to die, NOW). Sadly, maybe 5% of the commercial sites on the Web are built by people who know their jobs, another 30% are built by people who think their jobs are to sell websites, and the other 65% are built by the owner (bad) or the owner's brother's girlfriend's cousin (worse) and look like it; for non-commercial sites, it's 5/0/95%. So they probably have strange text sizes, stranger colors, all centered, and they blink.
The bottom line is there is no minimum spec. No matter what you have, there will always be some wanker out there who builds a page that breaks it. It's what they do.
I'd suggest, though, that MobileRead is probably not the ideal place to ask this. Most of the folks here are bookworms, not website designers (though I'm both).
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