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Jerry wrote:
> GIF, used correctly, is not a lossy format, nor does it have
> unnecessarily big file sizes. If the image has less than 256 colors, GIF
> preserves the colors completely; as the number of colors drops, the
> likelihood that GIF will be much smaller than JPEG increases.
blah, blah, blah =)
> See http://cerebus.acusd.edu/GIFJPG/ for an example of an image that is
> either 10 times as big as a JPEG than as a GIF, or is only 3 times as
> big but much lower quality.
Jpeg's not that great either. And most of the compressors for jpeg aren't
very good.
> PNG is even better, but PNG support in web browsers is still lacking,
> especially when it comes to transparency and simple animations.
Exactly, PNG is the greatest!
> (Also please note that I support the authors of software such as MegaPOV
> and GD removing GIF support from their creations.)
Good.
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