Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2715] GIFs

[Tom Holub <doosh@best.com>]

On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 12:30:44PM -0500, Dave Ahn wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 08:07:11AM -0600, sheldon wrote:
> > Unfortunately png is not well supported by most browsers.
> 
> I believe PNG is supported by IE and Netscape, but the format is not as
> universal.

It's not supported by either, as far as I can tell; if you do 
<img src="foo.png"> it will not display.

> >  I would think that jpeg would be a better choice than png.  Although I
> > realize that jpeg works better for pictures than it does for graphics due to
> > it's lossy compression nature.
> 
> JPEGs with equal quality as the GIFs turn out to be larger in size, at least
> for the images that I use in www.netrek.org.

JPEGs are good for photos, but for line graphics GIF is a much better format.
 -Tom