| From: | Andrew Crowe |
| Date: | 11 May 2001 at 20:12:54 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga Active- things to do! |
Hi Everybody,
>> yet to see a 256 colour picture that is better with GIF than PNG
>> ;-)
>>
>> ?? And you won't because they're not lossy!
>
> That doesn't mean that there's no compression. GIF supports some
> sort of basic compression mechanism that deals well with large
> blocks of colour,
Um, I'd hardly call LZW compression "basic" :)
> while PNG lets you have significantly more
> sophisticated schemes.
PNG does have a slightly better compression scheme, and it supports
24bit images with Alpha channels etc.
Plus it's an open standard which means you don't need to buy some
stupid licence to use it! ;)
See ya :)
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