On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:27:48 +0300, Gutza
<gutza(a)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