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GIF
JPEG

Rating: 3.0/5 (3 votes)

Rating: 2.3/5 (3 votes)

Patented:
No
No
Support for transparency:
Yes
No
Support for animation:
Yes
No
Uniform Type Identifier:
com.compuserve.gif
public.jpeg
Magic Number:
GIF87a/GIF89a
ff d8
Developed by:
CompuServe
Joint Photographic Experts Group
Type of format:
Raster graphics image format
lossy image format
Compression algorithm:
Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW)
Lossy & Lossless, DCT, RLE, Huffman predictive nearest neighbor
Raster/vector:
Raster
Raster
Indexed color:
Yes
No
Support for metadata:
Yes
Yes
Interlacing support:
Yes
Yes
Support for multi-page:
Yes
No
Support for layers:
Yes
No
Color management:
No
Yes
Extendable:
Yes (GIF89a)
No
Stands for:
Graphics Interchange Format
Joint Photographic Experts Group
File extensions:
.gif, .gfa
.jpg, .jpeg, .jpe
MIME type:
image/gif
image/jpeg
Applications compatible:
Most web browsers and productivity suites
Most web browsers and productivity suites
Color depth:
8-bit ( greyscale), 12-bit, 24-bit

GIF and JPEG are two of the most popular formats for graphics files on the Internet.

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