The PNG image file format is now more popular than GIF

More numerous perhaps, but not more important--going by the insane explosion in animated GIFs in the last two years... I think folks would have stuck by JPEG if it offered transparency.

Re: The PNG image file format is now more popular than GIF

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Post by jug6ernaut » Thu, Jan 31, 2013, 3:40 PM UTC

I know nothing behind the standard that is "GIF". But am i the only one who thinks its completely unreasonable that a few GIF's can turn my browser into a 5fps mess? How is there not a better option for this?

Re: The PNG image file format is now more popular than GIF

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Post by chris_wot » Thu, Jan 31, 2013, 3:44 PM UTC

jug6ernaut wrote: post #8

I know nothing behind the standard that is "GIF". But am i the only one who thinks its completely unreasonable that a few GIF's can turn my browser into a 5fps mess? How is there not a better option for this?

If that's a reproducible issue, have you considered filing a bug?

Re: The PNG image file format is now more popular than GIF

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Post by Zirro » Thu, Jan 31, 2013, 3:44 PM UTC

sk5t wrote: post #7

More numerous perhaps, but not more important--going by the insane explosion in animated GIFs in the last two years... I think folks would have stuck by JPEG if it offered transparency.

"...going by the insane explosion in animated GIFs in the last two years... I think folks would have stuck by JPEG if it offered transparency."

That does not make sense as JPEG doesn't support animation. Regardless, the blurriness caused by normal JPEG-compression levels makes it a bad option for most non-photo images.