Replacing .GIF File Types With .PNG
Times change, with standards. The standard of internet web graphics now has to be replaced ith a new file type. With a 32KB sliding window PNGs uses the deflate compression algorithm typically. An improved version of the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm (LZ77) used in ZIP and GZIP files (3,4) is deflate. Deflate Created by Phil Katz for version 2 of PKZip combines LZ77 with Huffman encoding and is 10% to 30% more efficient than LZW at lossless compression. Some PNG compression tools have an optional “compression ratio” with values ranging

