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Posted by Nik Coughlin on 11/20/73 11:45
Andy Dingley wrote:
> On 19 Apr 2006 10:05:02 -0700, "cwdjrxyz" <spamtrap1@cwdjr.info>
> wrote:
>
>> Thus for accurate colors for photographs, a gif
>> should be avoided.
>
> GIF should be avoided for "overall accurate rendering". However if you
> want to match a logo and a CSS colour so that one bleeds cleanly into
> another, then use a pallette-based image format like GIF or PNG,
> definitely not JPG. JPG offers lots of colours with good shading, but
> it's lossy compression so they're all a little approximate. If it's a
> question of matching solid colour blocks of one shade, then JPG is a
> bad choice.
In fact, if you need to colour match an image with a CSS colour, use GIF
whenever possible over PNG, as the gamma correction in PNG will cause a
mismatch in some browsers:
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