PNG is superior in every way, except one, which might be the most important in practice: vendor support. IE doesn't support it's transparency correctly, and Photoshop has a piss-poor PNG compressor (last I checked, you're actually better off not compressing PNGs at all in Photoshop). Those two products make up the most common way of viewing and creating images, respectively.

Further, since Microsoft says there aren't going to be any more updates to IE until Longhorn comes out, and it'll take at least 1-2 years before a significant fraction of MS users are on the new OS, we're going to see at least three more years of IE non-functionality of PNG support (unless the recently announced "XP Reloaded" changes the IE release, too).

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In reply to Re: Re: FYI: GIF (non) support in GD by hardburn
in thread FYI: GIF (non) support in GD by dws

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