GIF vs JPG

[P3D Marvin Jones <Campfire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I agree that JPEG is always preferable to (256 color or less) GIF 
> for "real world" images.

May I suggest running test instead of just accepting this "common
knowledge" without question? When I first started working on my website I
tried doing several photos in both GIF and JPG in several degrees of
compression. It was my experience that the GIF pictures were almost always
far superior to the JPG images, even at 100% (which I found produced much
larger images than the comparable GIF). I still often use JPG images on the
website because at a medium compression they are smaller than GIFs, and
size equates to speed of download, of course. But whenever picture quality
is important to me, I still usually go with GIF. (There's also the
consideration that many, many of your visitors at a website will only have
256-color monitors, and the inferior dithering capabilities of most
browsers will make your 24-bit JPGs look like last week's garbage!)


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