Web Browsers Image File Formats

Welcome Xhtml Rules Agenda DocType Web Terms XHTML Elements Meta Elements Block Level Elements Lists Text Format Font Attributes Horizontal Rule Special Entities Tag Review Project I

Anchor Tag Linking Tips Insert Images Image Formats Image Attributes Image Links HexColors Web Safe Colors Project 2

Why CSS? Inline CSS Embed CSS Linked CSS CSS Attributes Font Families Font CSS Text CSS Color CSS List CSS Project 3

Div or Span Background Images Display Position Z-index Clip and Visibility Border CSS Pseudo Classes Project 4 CSS Summary

Web Resources Final Check Course Review

Image File Features	GIF	JPEG	PNG
Graphic File Format (GIF) GIF was developed by CompuServe for online use for line art projects.
Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG) JPG created this format especially for photographs to maintain the millions of colors and quality.
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) PNG is the latest format that is supported by most browsers plus accommodates millions of colors and lossless compression.

Transparency	Yes	No	Yes
Interlacing/Progressive Rendering	Yes	Yes	Yes
Millions of Colors	No	Yes	Yes
Lossless Compression some color is lost	Yes	No	Yes
Expecially for Line Art	Yes	No	Yes
Photographs	No	Yes	Yes
Supported by most Browsers	Yes	Yes	No