5. Working with PhotoLine / 5.7 Creating Images For The Web

5.7.3 File Formats for the Web

There are a variety of file formats that can be used on the web. All of them have their advantages and disadvantages.

GIF

GIF is one of the oldest web formats. Its characteristics are:

PNG

PNG has been started to replace GIF. In wide areas it has succeeded, only for animations GIF is often still used.

JPEG

Another old web format is JPEG. Despite its age and although various successor formats have been developed, it is still widely used:

WebP

WebP has set out to inherit JPEG. However, it has only partially succeeded, although it offers better compression and is supported by all major browsers.

SVG

SVG is a bit of an outsider among web formats. It’s mostly good for vector graphics, but can also contain text and images.