Comments on: PNG8 – The Clear Winner

By: pixelbobby

pixelbobby — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:47:56 +0000

I learned a lot from this article! Years and years of web design, and I cannot believe I missed this! Thanks for sharing!

By: Anton

Anton — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:31:41 +0000

Personally I don’t bother with PNGs in IE6 and earlier.
People who haven’t upgraded their browsers in almost a decade get a GIF. Still works, just doesn’t look as pretty.
I’m so tired of busting my balls for workarounds to other people’s problems/mistakes.

By: bryan

bryan — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:08:37 +0000

Depending on what you need to do . . .

I was able to use Microsoft Expression Design 2 to take a picture and export it as a PNG with color mode of indexed, palette of optimized-2 colors with transparency checked, and it worked in IE 6, just like a PNG 8 would . . .

Now, I was just creating a one-pixel transparent png, so not sure how good this would work in other scenarios . . . still it gives you something to try if you have Microsoft, not Fireworks.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:29:42 +0000

I agree with Aaron and Dan! Let’s boycott IE! Nobody develop for IE ANYMORE!!!
Crowd says: HERE HERE!!!
Let IE die like old people on WebTV!!! Viva La Revolucion!!!
Crowd cheers excitedly: Wii Wii!!!
And if anybody asks who started this, blame CANADA!!!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:44:28 +0000

I agree with Dan. Screw IE 6 users. In fact, screw IE users across the board. My stats are now showing that across all the sites I work on / with, Firefox is pushing between 53 and 69% of the total visitorship. IE is losing market share and I’m a happy camper because of it. On one site, IE (altogether) is only an 18% share of the total visitors (and is being beaten by Safari with a solid 22%). A fact that makes me as giddy as a 14 year old girl in the mall with mommy’s credit card.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:53:34 +0000

I’d rather have the IE users suffer for using a bad browser than cater to their requirements. Maybe if they suffered more, they’d switch already!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:13:51 +0000

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 02:43:11 +0000

At least starting with CS3, photoshop offers PNG8’s in the “save for web” dialog.

By: pvc granül

pvc granül — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:33:21 +0000

I switched from png to gif in photoshop save, and it crunched the bg image down from 3.6kb to 300bytes.

that is almost 100 times smaller in size, how can I get that kind of compression with .png? Do i really have to use some 3rd party tool to shrink them? Why not just use .gif for small images (like tiled backgrounds)?

pvc granül

By: zorella

zorella — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:17:02 +0000

…. how did I not know this existed?! Not only has this fixed a major issue, but it’s cut my file sizes to a third.