| Netscape Navigator,
Microsoft Internet Explorer, and most other browsers support
both GIF and JPEG graphics (as of this writing, PNG graphics
are not adequately supported). In theory, you could use either
graphic format for the visual elements of your Web pages.
In practice, however, most Web developers
will continue to favor the GIF format for most page design
elements, diagrams, and images that must not dither on 8-bit
display screens. Designers choose the JPEG format mostly for
photographs, complex "photographic" illustrations,
medical images, and other types of images in which the compression
artifacts of the JPEG process do not severely compromise image
quality.
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