User talk:Samoli

PNG
I made no claim that PNG *overtook* GIF in the 1990s, simply that GIF was no longer the "de facto standard". It certainly had been up to that point, but toward the end of the 90s support for PNG in IE was sufficient enough that the "Burn All GIFs" folks started pushing PNG enthusiastically, especially for buttons and arrows and the like. From that point there has been no real "standard" for 8-bit images. As you say, GIF continued to be (and still is) a popular alternative, but it lost its "de facto standard" edge back then. -- Elphion (talk) 21:22, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Browser support was extremely minimal in 1999, and even by Internet Explorer 6 (2001) PNG support was buggy and not often used. There may have been support for PNG from early adopters, but it definitely wasn't a "standard" until much later. I take your point that things were changing around this time, but it's misleading to suggest it wasn't anything other than extremely popular until well in to the 2000s. There is also no data that I can find on 8-bit colour PNG usage, which the preceding sentence specifically refers to. Samoli (talk) 21:36, 21 September 2016 (UTC) Samoli (talk) 21:36, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

I much prefer your latest edit, that clears it up nicely, thanks Samoli (talk) 21:37, 21 September 2016 (UTC)