One day PNG’s
technical and licensing
superiority over GIF will make it ubiquitous.
But not yet.
Update (4 Nov. 2001). I have now
started using
PNGs
on the site—though I have not
yet taken the trouble to convert the existing GIF files yet.
Update (15 March 2002). Today as
I convert my old site at
http://www.alleged.demon.co.uk/ to its new home on
http://www.alleged.org.uk/,
I have been converting most of the remaining GIFs to PNGs. I guess
I now have confidence in the support for this format.
Here’s a Christmas card in SVG.
Don’t worry, though,
I have also made a GIF version
for those people who cannot view SVG yet. In this particular
case, the ‘fancy’ SVG animation is 23 KB
(I could have compressed it to make a 2-KB
svgz file), whereas the GIF is 76 KB, and is a
simpler animation (you get the blinking lights, but the SVG
version also has the tree growing out of nothing an a very
amusing manner). That said, the SVG animation needs more
client-side CPU, and begins to get jerky on a 200-MHz
Pentium-compatible NT box, so I have also supplied a simpler version (missing the
background picture) in case that helps.
