Fennec Foxen wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:27:48 +0300, Gutza gutza@moongate.ro wrote:
That's true, but it can happily replace GIF's, it's actually smaller if compared on par (8-bit images).
Yes. Both PNG and GIF are lossless, and you can convert between them until the [[You have two cows|cows]] come home
Yuck: the misconception that GIF is lossless was common when JPEG just came out. You are right that recoding GIF's ad infinitum does not lose more and more information every time, but encoding to GIF for the first time loses 16 out of 24 bitplanes of information. GIF is a colormapped format accommodating at most 256 colors.
Rob