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GIF features retained in PNG include:

(courtesy of the FAQ maintained by Thomas Boutel) Important new features of PNG, not available in GIF, include: PNG is intended to be: What all this means to someone creating web sites is that PNG is a vastly improved GIF-like format. It is supported in several browsers:
AIR Mosaic [SPRY] (Windows)

AMosaic (Amiga)

Arena [W3C] (Unix/X)

Enhanced Mosaic [Spyglass] (Windows, NT, Macintosh, Unix/X)

Mosaic 95 [Compuserve/SPRY] (Windows 95)

NCSA non-X Mosaic [NCSA Mosaic Team] (Windows, Macintosh)

NCSA X Mosaic [NCSA Mosaic Team] (Unix/X)

Netkit [Netsurfer] (NeXTStep/OpenStep)

Netsurfer [Netsurfer] (NeXTStep/OpenStep)

OmniWeb [Omni Development] (NeXTStep/OpenStep)

PNET [PNET Corp.] (Windows)

SPRY Mosaic [CompuServe/SPRY] (Windows, Windows 95)

WinCIM [CompuServe] (Windows)


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