Is there a problem – except with the filesize – when using bmp files for websites?
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Is there a problem – except with the filesize – when using bmp files for websites?
With browsers post-2002 or with Internet Explorer, there is no problem, they will display it. IE supported it and the others (you can find the code for Mozilla/Firefox and for Chrome/WebKit) followed suit to stay compatible. The only issue is indeed size, which means:
If you need lossless compression, use PNG: it’s widely supported, and the few browsers that do not support it completely, like IE 6, do support all the features BMP has too — they just don’t support PNG transparency but BMP doesn’t have transparency either.