A bit out of date - sub-editor asleep?

[johnhudson]

There haven't been any Novell supported distros for two years (p. 38 ) - JPEGs are all but a deprecated format (pp. 84-85) and <div>s have definitely been deprecated for over two years (pp. 90-91).

[Nuke]

JPEGs are all but a deprecated format

News to me. Citation? It's a pity because my camera only saves in RAW or JPEG, and the vast majority of pics I see on the Web and elsewhere are in JPEG.

[johnhudson]

The default bitmap format in HTML5 is image/png; of course, all photos are by default JPG but there is little point in downloading RAW images if you are ultimately going to save them as JPEG.

Most of the programs I use which have a default bitmap format use PNG. Ever since I started using Linux, I have seen a gradual trend away from JPEGs; a quick count shows I have 32 times more PNGs (from icons to images) on my system than JPGs (a miniscule number of those PNGs were generated by me).

[lok1950]

That PNG supports an alpha channel makes it my preferred format much easier to use as textures etc.

Enjoy the Choice