On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Phil Taylor wrote: > John Chambers wrote: > >GIF is only used because browsers understand it. > > No, it's used because it's the most efficient way of compressing a > black and white (or 256 colour) picture into a small file.
True in low resolution files, but not in print quality. > The newer > PNG format is just as good, and free, but not yet as popular. Why? For exactly one reason: browsers (the big one esp) were not supporting png until recently. And since one must expect quite a few users to still be using their 4.0 or 5.0 browsers it's still not "safe" to use png on web pages. Sad, since png is superior to gif in all ways -- love, peace & harmony Atte To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
