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What's so good about PNGs?


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I heard is was pronounced "Jiff" but i've always called it Giff.

.png also supports layers, like .psd in photoshop and is real nice to save for when I make

logo's for websites, I can easily modify graphics in fireworks with .png format as opposed to photoshop .psd format .

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an animated png? :huh: known as mng? :blink: where at? i'd like to see it. i've seen an animated jpg before. what's that called? :wacko: does this exist? an animated jpg, the one i thought i saw, identified iself as jpg when i looked at its properties. :rolleyes:

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Okay, as far as compression goes, PNG 8-bit compresses a little better than GIF.(But loses the same amount of quality)

24-bit compresses very poorly(compared to JPEG), but is lossless. So unless it is critical that the image is 100% perfect (not just to the eye),

then go for 24-bit PNG. For most web graphics it is a waste of space.

There are however applications (like CursorFX) which use 24-bit PNG's with the alpha channel to get cool FX and anti-aliased edges.

But IE don't support the alpha channel of 24-bit PNG's, so that's why you don't see many of those images on the web. It is a shame

though, because the feature would be very cool. And the source is free. Almost every GNU/Linux-browser supports it, so I guess MS

could do so as well, if they didn't hate Open Source so much.

And yes, there is an animated version of PNG (a fork of the project). I think you can find links on the PNG projects hompage or by googling.

I doubt it will be supported soon though, because of the poor interest showed(by MS) for PNG.

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umm you could google it and it will tell you... most people use for Quality to show their desktop or so they can use nice looking pictures for their dock :)

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Someone claimed that IE doesn't support PNG. It actually does. You will loose the support once you installed Quicktime, because it kidnaps IEs PNG handler.

Not 32 bit PNGs..... not unless you use the stupid AlphaImageLoader.... hello MS...... sort this out NOW.

Peeeeeeeeeeeeez

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