Image Test Document

There are many formats available for storing images. However, many browsers are unable to display more than one or two formats "inline". The two most common formats in use (and supported by browsers) are GIF and JPEG, with GIF being the more popular of these two. Following is a list of formats along with a small image in each format. You can use it to see which formats are supported by your browser.

Remember that a separate network connection has to be made for each image in your document. So although small images may be transferred quickly, putting many of them in a document can make it take extra time to transfer due to the overhead involved in opening extra connections for each image. Using the same image repeatedly (such as colored bullets) does not incur the same cost since browsers usually cache the image, and will only need to transfer it once even if it used more than once in the document.

GIF87a Image

An image of a bear, gif87. Non-transparent background.

GIF89a - Non-Interlaced Image

An image of a bear, gif89. Transparent background.

GIF89a - Interlaced Image

An image of a bear, gif89, interlaced. Transparent background.

BMP Image

Windows bitmap format

JPEG Image

PCX Image