In article <39BEB06E.2516AF32@faricy.net>, David Fontaine 
<dav### [at] faricynet> wrote:
>I love that lossy grainy compression and unnecessarily big file sizes! I 
>love GIF!

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.

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.

PNG is even better, but PNG support in web browsers is still lacking, 
especially when it comes to transparency and simple animations.

(Also please note that I support the authors of software such as MegaPOV 
and GD removing GIF support from their creations.)

Jerry

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