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		zuppy on Jan 31, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The PNG image file format is now more popular than... I think it's because of IE. I know IE sopports transparent PNGs for quite a while, but until not very long ago there were not so many options and people don't really like to upgrade IE apparently.

ygra on Jan 31, 2013 [–]

Binary transparency PNGs (i.e. no separate alpha channel) have worked in IE since at least 6. So except for animation support there really is no reason to use GIF.

iso-8859-1 on Jan 31, 2013 | [–]

Some GIF's compress to less data, even after running pngout/optipng/pngcrush.

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