- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:44:36 +0200
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: public-evangelist@w3.org
On Tuesday, July 10, 2007, 5:37:08 PM, Dan wrote: DC> I'm validating some stuff, and I just got: DC> Tip Of The Day: GIF or PNG DC> http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/png-gif DC> 2006/11/24 01:20:24 DC> Er... tips should be sentences of the form "do something", no? DC> so perhaps: DC> Tip of the Day: Choose graphics formats (GIF or PNG) carefully DC> or better: DC> Tip of the Day: Consider PNG instead of GIF for images Yes to either of those. DC> p.s. DC> I'm a bit surprised to see "GIF's strong point is that it is very widely DC> supported and thus well established as the default choice for simple DC> graphics on the Web." DC> But that's consistent with the current Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 DC> Proposed Recommendation: Yes, unfortunately. From 1995 to 2006 W3C promoted PNG over GIF, and now some parts of W3C are promoting GIF over PNG. I believe this is mainly due to a continuing lack of support from one major mobile carrier. This is particularly ironic given that IE7 finally added the rest of the PNG support (transparent images) that was half-done in IE5 - IE6. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Interaction Domain Leader Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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