PNGs for line art and text, JPEGs for photorealistic images. > When I came up in the IE era In the IE era I recall, the battle was between GIF and JPEG becaus

PNGs for line art and text, JPEGs for photorealistic images. > When I came up in the IE era In the IE era I recall, the battle was between GIF and JPEG because IE supported alphatransparent PNGs very poorly :) > if I recall correctly JPEG as a format can encode an image with a higher fidelity than PNG The other way around: JPEGs are “lossy” – they throw away visual information to save file size. PNGs, on the other hand, are “lossless”, and decode back to exactly the same pixels that were fed into the encoder.