On 12/12/11 9:47 PM, Andrew Gray wrote: > On 12 December 2011 19:22, Möller, Carsten<c.moel...@wmco.de> wrote: >> Who has asked for such a silly feature? >> Every uploader sees the image he/she is uploading and has made the necessary >> rotation beforehand. > I've certainly uploaded screwily-rotated files before; it's fairly > common, especially with some Windows software, for an image to be > shown to the user as rotated while retaining its "set" rotation in a > way that's not visible until it's sent somewhere. This is also the default in OSX, fwiw, in both iPhoto and Preview. I would suspect that many casual users don't even realize that a rotation is happening: their camera's orientation sensor sets an EXIF flag, and Preview then displays the image with the correct orientation based on the EXIF, all done silently. Subsequently uploading it to Commons *prior* to the new auto-rotation support is then likely to have resulted in unexpected results.
(I agree on the troubles with old images.) -Mark _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
