Png or JPEG or GIF?

[TheMajor]

What are the advantages of using PNG or JPG or GIF on websites?

 

[erica]

GIF supports a palette of 256 while JPG supports 16 million, therefore JPG is the better choice when you're working with photos and images with lots of shading and variation.

GIF is better for line drawings and logos, and is what you use for animated graphics or graphics with some transparency.

PNG is like GIF except you can control the transparency, the images are often compressed more, but PNG doesn't support animation. Further, last time I heard not all browsers support it.

 

[mdshort]

PNG is nowhere close to GIF other than the fact that it does support transparency. PNG is well supported, but isn't by some older browsers. Unlike JPG and GIF, PNG saves your image information perfectly, preserving full image quality. (This however makes PNG's considerably larger than JPGs.)