Images and Graphics on the Web
•Graphics Interchange
Format (GIF)
is an older format for images that does a very good job of compressing
small- or medium-sized files.
•Most GIF files you find on the
Web have a .gif extension
and can store only up to 256 different colors.
•The GIF format is
widely used on the Internet for images that have only a few
distinct colors, such as line drawings, cartoons, simple icons,
and screen objects.
•An animated
GIF file
combines several images into a single GIF file and gives the
appearance of cartoon-like animation.