It’s not all about GIFs, PNGs and JPEGs any more. Some of the raster image formats in use today date as far back as 1987, when the GIF image was first presented by CompuServe, with JPEG and PNG arriving in the early and mid-90s respectively. If you think back on how much innovation has occurred in the browser over the past 17 years, it’s some triumph that these three have remained on top. That’s not to say that GIF, JPEG and PNG have remained unchanged – all have received incremental improvements. But as technology advances, we discover more efficient approaches that aren’t always compatible with the standards we defined back in the 1980s. Here are the 3 every designer needs to know about…