The slogan for Mortein - an insectacide - goes:
"When you're on a good thing, stick to it!"[/i]
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True colors shine through:
. . . Without PNG, graphics appear differently and in different shades of color on screens of different kinds of computers: PCs, Macintosh, or Unix workstations. With PNG, files can be seen as intended on various machines.
PNG files average about 30 percent smaller than equivalent GIF files and can download faster to a user's screen. "The image comes sharper much more quickly, and not with that stretched appearance," Lilley said. As a result, a PNG viewer gets a first preview of an image with one sixty-fourth of the data downloaded, compared with only one-eighth for a GIF file.
PNG supports colour depths right on up to 24Bit (maybe even 32Bit?), while GIF's limitation is 8Bit!
