Re: Image orientation for backgrounds

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2014-04-15 at 13:38 -0700, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> >   People use images with bad exif data all over the
> > place, or else we wouldn't have to have this as a switch; we'd just
> > mandate that browsers respected EXIF.
>
> In any case there should probably be a way to override it. And
> presumably a way for JavaScript to determine that the image is being
> displayed rotated (e.g. a computed rotate property?).


Why?
If a user really wanted to know, he could parse the EXIF data himself.