Jpg, Gif, Png

[Behemoth]

I have no idea which forum to put this in. I just wanted to start a discussion about image types for use on the web. Personally I feel we should be thinking about flushing out GIFs in favour of non-proprietary formats like PNG. Anyone got anything interesting to add?

[Lord Orwell]

i am not familiar with that format.

However as long as compuserve isn't charging a licensing fee for each .gif i make, then i am not concerned about it.

[parksie]

I think PNG is far superior to GIF, as well as being royalty-free

PNG kicks the **** out of both jpg and gif I try to use it whenever possible..... when I remember....which isn't very often....

Is it acceptible to use it to the exclusion of the other two? Is it well supported by browsers?

JPG - Good for photos
GIF - Good for cartoons
PNG - Good for text

those are the results I've got

and PNG is supported by IE,NS and Opera

Anoop - you forgot one:

GIF - bad for developers.

[chrismitchell]

Gifs aren't that bad... They are small which is good and they make some funny little animations which are sometimes pleasant (They make some peoples Avatars!).

Though I do agree that they are a bugger to use in any other way and the quality is crap!

I'm not complaining about their quality, or the usefulness of their application, more the money-grabbing attitude of the companies with proprietary formats. I suppose its sensible business practices, but it stalls technological growth. We should be using PNGs instead by now.

[chrismitchell]

But the problem with PNG's are their size they are much bigger... We should all be using Flash and saving them that way.. Then they are much smaller!

[Volcano]

PNG is not that too big .. chris

[chrismitchell]

I wasn't saying that it was too big.. I was just saying that it is a bit bigger than the other files and that could cause problems when lack of space is an issue.