PNG or GIF?

I have absolutely no idea where to ask this question, so I've come here for help. I like to make sprites, but I've been saving all of them in the GIF format. It has come to my attention that PNG can also do transparencies and animations, but I can only save my animations in GIF anyway (I use Jasc Animation Shop). If this is all painfully obvious to you guys, I'll just say sorry in advance, but I've just had to learn as I go.

Anyway, I have tested both formats out, but the only difference seems to be file size. Which format is best for saving transparencies? I've tried to read up on the differences, but every single god damn article is in crazy nerd talk, so it tends to go over my head at times. I hope someone might respond here.

>>13
LOL PSP
Lol >>13

Also, as the difference in a low-colour GIF example and the comparable PNG version is often only a matter of 10-20%
If 10%..20% is not a big difference for you, you haven't done anything serious.

Did you notice that IE4-IE6 gets the gamma or something wrong
Of course. The PNG gamma is broken (as almost anything) in MSIE. However, if all the images of your site (at least all the UI images) are PNGs, it'll look consistently wrong, and that's more than MSIE users deserve. Don't come replying that you want colours to look this or that way because they'll NEVER will; even if MSIE had proper PNG support, their monitors, graphics drivers and room light conditions will be differently adjusted than yours and colours will not be the same.

Also the IE workarounds are fucking horrible from a hacky shitty code standpoint and not very many people use them.
Since not very many people use them, you won't use them? Wow smrat.

Oh yeah okay just block the most popular browser on the internet, that'll really show those MICRO$HIT assholes!
As much as I'd want to tell MSIE idiots to fuck off, I can't, because I'm doing serious business with it. Were it not so, I wouldn't know about MSIE's issues and workarounds.

PNG is a better format but if you're doing something that GIF supports (low colour, no need for transparency) it's not a bad idea to consider GIF, as it still has the advantage of being more widely supported.
Except animations, which are terrible and every time I see them I want to kill the faggot who used it (doesn't happen though, as I banned them in my real browser), there's not a single feature GIF supports that MSIE doesn't support for PNG, and the only side effect is the slightly different gamma, which, as I explained, is not a big problem.