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For those without comedic tastes, the so-called experts at Wikipedia have an article about PNG.

“I'm going to fucking bury that format, I've done it before, and I will do that again. I'm going to fucking make PNG lose all significance on the Web so we shouldn't bother properly implementing it.”

~ Steve Ballmer on PNG

PNG (ROT13 for "cat", a popular Unix utility) is a recursive acronym for PNG's Not Graphics. Therefore, you should never ever under any circumstances use PNG for graphics. There are much cooler formats, such as JPEG, and of course BMP's. Also, don't bother saving JPEGs in Photoshop. Use MS Paint.

Use JPEG for everything, especially text and line art. Consider these examples:

PNG

JPEG

It is obvious that JPEG adds cool antialiasing and gray background. Another example: Image:H0lyDMCAlol.JPG.

[edit] Arguments for not using PNG

• Nobody knows about it.
• No Animation, so the format is absolutely useless as you cannot use it for banner ads.
• It's used on Wikipedia. Yes, that parody on Uncyclopedia. Why should the great Uncyclopedia use it?
• It's an outdated proprietary format so you're doomed if you use PNG, as Unisys will retaliate with a DMCA lawsuit! Also, it only supports 256 colors, and GIF (created as a replacement) supports mostly supports 32-bit alpha transparency. See http://burnallgifs.org for more information.
• PNG is too limited to be rendered in Internet Explorer. So if you see the PNG above, you are not using Internet Explorer, you are using Mozilla Firefox disguised as Internet Explorer 7. Or maybe the Flying Spaghetti Monster makes you believe you see it.
• Because of the Transparency Bug, PNG can't display nude imagery. Computer Hackers thus refer to the format as "persona non grata", because of occurrences of - for example - Jimmy Wales PNGs amongst finr pr0n JPEGs. See Horror, Hoax.
• PNG is not supported in Uruguay

[edit] Arguments for using PNG

You can save it as JPEG.