[MrDOS]

PNGs for line art and text, JPEGs for photorealistic images.

> When I came up in the IE era

In the IE era I recall, the battle was between GIF and JPEG because IE supported alphatransparent PNGs very poorly :)

> if I recall correctly JPEG as a format can encode an image with a higher fidelity than PNG

The other way around: JPEGs are “lossy” – they throw away visual information to save file size. PNGs, on the other hand, are “lossless”, and decode back to exactly the same pixels that were fed into the encoder.

[no_wizard]

It’s been so darn long since I looked into these formats I got it backward. Thank you!