[RCD] Re: Corrupt mail.gif - using PNG

[Michael Baierl]

till wrote:
With Internet Explorer behaving so weird when it comes to PNGs I see
no reason to use them (at all). After all IE is still the most used
browser.
Well, it depends. It's not as easy as "GIF is bad, PNG is good".
GIF:
        -) 256 colors only
        -) small in size
        -) transparency works

PNG:
        -) true color
        -) larger compared to GIF
        -) great transparency support, but broken in IE

Both have lossless compression (not like JPEG).

So it depends on what you want to do with your graphic and if you need 
true color or not. If you don't use transparency it's fine to use PNG 
within IE, if you don't need true color use GIF because the files are 
smaller.

Best regards,
Mike

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