5. Working with PhotoLine / 5.7 Creating Images 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.