Why use GIF?
The GD image creation library (for use with many web programming languages) used to create images on-the-fly has been released to support GIF creation.
GIF creation support was removed as the author wanted to comply with the patent on GIF. This patent is over so GIF support has been reinstated.
The question I want to ask is: has it been worth the wait?
We have PNG now and although IE doesn't support PNG alpha transparency, you can still make them transparent in the same way you can make GIFs.
There are not many reasons to use GIFs anymore. MNG (Animated PNGs) should be used instead of animated GIFs in the near future as that is the only reason to use GIFs at the moment.
PNGs provide better compression and better quality images than GIF and also allow alpha transparency.
Why use GIF?
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