- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:20:15 -0800
- To: Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org list" <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com> wrote: > I still don't think it's really clear. The spec says: > >> Sometimes images from camera phones, digital cameras or scanners are encoded sideways > > and then in the Note: >> Note that in CSS, orientation data encoded in the image (e.g. EXIF data) is ignored > > The difference between "encoded sideways" and "orientation data encoded in the image" seems too subtle. Maybe the note should refer to metadata or even EXIF explicitly. > > I don't know the history of image-orientation (the earliest reference on the list is http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2004Jan/0249.html in 2004), but I still think that orientation issues related to EXIF are way more frequent than those due to encoding sideways. I question whether this property will be used often enough to warrant its inclusion. Okay, how about now? In the intro I specifically refer to how data-based sideways orientations can arise, then immediately have a note about metadata-based orientations. ~TJ
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