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Image Optimization Best Practices

Photoshops save for web feature is quite good, testing has gif, jpg and png smaller file sizes per pic is a good idea, cutting up images for better load time and tiling/repeating use of elements in a site is important as well.

it seems like people want to push .pngs now. is one file format better than the other?

PNGs are quite good. gifs support transparency and animation, jpgs support more colour and pngs support alpha transparency and better colour so you could say PNGs are better but it depends on the type of images you are creating. a lot of the time gifs and jpgs have smaller image sizes than pngs.

IE doesn't support alpha transparency in pngs

But future browsers will.

'future' browsers like opera and moz already do. it's lame old IE that doesn't and seeing as it will be couple of years or so till we might see some newer version of IE, possibly tied in with the os upgrade, the minority of IE users (at least for a while) will have a png tranparency enabled browser (assuming of course that MS will intorduce this rather than their own graphics format ;) you can start using 8-bit pngs instead of gifs though :)

Googles new browser should as well, its supposed to be based on firefox.

i figured there was a reason we didn't see many pngs now.

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