29 Jan
2006
29 Jan
'06
8:53 p.m.
der Mouse wrote:
I didn't see anything in
the original request that called for anything PNG can do but GIF can't,
Reasons to use PNG over GIF:
- Better compression with faster decompression speeds (PNG uses LZ77,
GIF uses LZ78)
- Color depths *above* 8-bit (ie. 24-bit color)
- Alpha channel (256 levels of transparancy)
Now that PNG is in all still-maintained graphics programs and web
browsers, there is no reason to use GIF at all moving forward.
It's philosophically similar to Occam's Razor,
and is the non-security
version of "you can't be cracked through a hole in a daemon you don't
run".
You're mis-applying Occam's Razor here. We're talking about file
formats, not programs.
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