Okay, I have no idea why you would call me a rabid OS geek.
The patent on GIF expires, Unisys isn't going to renew and guess what - critical mass wins. PNG is doomed.
PNG is doomed? Maybe, but not because PNG is a bad/useless format. It just hasn't been picked up in the industry, why, I have no idea.
And besides, GIF's don't have to be ugly or restricted to 256 colors.
I agree, not all GIFs are ugly, I for one used them all the time back in the day before everyone had 16bit color. Though I'm yet to see how you can use more than 255 colors.
It's not the format that necessarily sucks but the monkey behind the keyboard
I never said everything sucks BUT PNG.
But hey, why use logic - extremism is so much more fun!
I'm going to burn your house down now.