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Compared to what? It is supported in every major browser as far as I know.
by techntoke 7y ago
Compared to what? It is supported in every major browser as far as I know.
- wongarsu 7y agoFor still images PNG replaced GIF, but both MNG and APNG suffered from missing browser support for most of their life (particularly from Chrome), leaving GIF as the only viable format for silent moving pictures (until the rise of webp).
- judge2020 7y agoMaybe it's the ffmpeg apng muxer but it almost seems like gif does a better job a compression compared to apng, making apng only solve one problem (AFAIK): the color limitations. See this example: https://gist.github.com/judge2020/a78adb07ae60244a5660fb631f389c02 https://gist.github.com/judge2020/a78adb07ae60244a5660fb631f...
- wongarsu 7y agoPNG has two (commonly used modes): 256 colors or true color. A 256 color PNG beats a GIF in compression, but for many images a 2^32 color PNG takes more space than a 256 color GIF. This holds true both for still images and animations. This leads to a curious situation where PNG beats GIF at anything GIF can do, yet still disappoints people.
- arendtio 7y agoCompared to JPEG. Sure the browser support is good nowadays, but there are still so many tools that create JPEG files by default, even when PNG files would be a better choice (e.g. Screenshots, computer generated graphics, etc.).