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Anonymous
I can't believe how misinformed some people are
- GIF is lossless compression. Can be up to 8-bit palettized color (256 colors) - PNG is lossless compression. Can be 8-bit palettized color (just like GIF, only it compresses a bit better). Yes.. PNG-8 DOES have a palette. - PNG can also be 24-bit RGB literal (PNG-24), but this results in much larger files - PNG can have an alpha channel, GIF cannot - GIF can animate, PNG cannot (as has been mentioned) - JPEG is lossy compression, which as far as I know is not palettized (though I'm not 100% on this). - A high quality JPEG will result in some loss, but the loss will hardly be noticable... or won't even be humanly noticable. - High quality JPEGs compress to a MUCH SMALLER SIZE than PNG-24 - For web images with 256 colors or less, you're better with PNG-8. - For web images with more than 256 colors, you're generally better off with a high quality JPEG.
Aside from animation, the PNG file format is 100% superior to GIF in every way (read the spec some time). The only thing that's held it back is Internet Explorer giving halfassed support and rendering .pngs improperly.
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