In this tip I will explore the two main choices of graphic format that can be used on the Web to represent simple graphics, schemas or logos:
- GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) was developed in the late 1980’s and it is still widely used.
- PNG (Portable Network Graphics) was developed around 1995, became a W3C recommendation in 1996, and has been widely implemented in most Web browsers as soon as 1998.
GIF
The GIF format is a format which compresses files using an algorithm called LZW, which keep traces of the colors and helps to reduce the size of the file.
