Forum:Congress/Mandatory PNG usage

For images, we must use PNG. Why?


 * JPG results in horrible-quality images with artifacts and no transparency,
 * GIF dithers, so the colour is actually not pure.
 * BMP is way too large.
 * Same with TIFF.

PNG is by far the optimal format for images. It supports transparency, is compact and has no horrible quality. Thus, I say we should ban all other image formats than PNG to reduce these problems in images. Any PC with Paint can make them.

However, images uploaded before this passes will be immune to this, but it is recommended to convert them. --  Zapwire  Δ  The d ark  side  of  the moon  20:44, 19 June 2009 (UTC)