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Re: Which format for image file resources in Cocoa application?
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Re: Which format for image file resources in Cocoa application?


  • Subject: Re: Which format for image file resources in Cocoa application?
  • From: j o a r <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 18:55:20 +0200


On 7 maj 2006, at 18.28, Lawrence Sanbourne wrote:

Another interesting aspect to this debate: PNGs are recommended for
use in Dashboard. So clearly Apple has no problem with PNGs for use as
user interface elements. It seems that the only advantage is speed of
initial display.

Well, it's "Portable _Network_ Graphics" after all, and since most Dashboard widgets are rendered by WebKit, it makes sense to use an image format that is designed to be used by web browsers (PNG was originally intended to be a replacement for GIF).


That said, after doing my homework, I have to retract my incorrect statement that PNG would be using lossy compression. So, given that it's not lossy, I see no reason to avoid using PNG in Cocoa applications.

j o a r


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