Re: Browser-friendly text image compression
- From: "Derek Pomery" <dpomery@[redacted]>
- Subject: Re: Browser-friendly text image compression
- Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 19:30:13 -0700
> That same image, at 1512 bytes in a GIF is 1407 bytes in a PNG (7% smaller),
> and most browsers can see PNG just as well... And PNG is more flexible of a
> format - and theoretically does better on larger images, too. *shrug*
>
> -Matt Cruikshank
Most people are not that familiar with PNG, even now. Most image editors
too. I picked the more popular format. In this case, problems of open
source versus closed, 8bit colour versus 24bit colour really aren't relevant.
There is a minor performance gain.
Throwing away creation time and background colour and using maximum
compression reduced file size to 1390.
Again, whichever he prefers, I suppose.