Posted by Roy Schestowitz on 06/07/05 04:11

dorayme wrote:

>> From: "Nik Coughin" <nrkn!no-spam!@woosh.co.nz>
>
>>>> GIF or JPEG or PNG or ...
>>>>
>>>> example would be highly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> roughly.... drawings in gif, photos in jpg
>>>
>>> Hans
>>
>> Png averages 20% better compression than gif.
>>
>>
>
> But, I understand, not as well supported as gif across all the browsers.
> Just a point to the OP that may not have been made, the advice above by
> Hans is good but in addition gifs can be good where there are simple
> restricted palette colours too, no tonal range.
>
> dorayme

Has nobody mentioned legal issues with GIF format yet? I don't know if it's
Unisys, but somebody used to have some ownership. It's like MP3 versus OGG
Vorbis.

Roy

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