Re: Packard super 8 Serpentine Front Runner Setup

Posted by BigKev On 2017/7/21 8:27:17

After a lot of looking and checking, I figure out what is going on. It's basically the browsers doing it. When an image is displayed on a web page, the browser ignores the EXIF tag in an image that camera embeds to say what orientation the camera was being held in during capture.

But if you go to the exact same image directly (like when you click on it) it does read this value and displays correctly.

This is across almost all browsers. When images are too large, I do not try to rotate them as it consumes too much server memory, which can cause issues. Some of the images are actually larger than the available memory for the server. So basically if the image is too large for resizing, and the image contains an EXIF orientation override value, then this can cause the sideways, or upside-down (aka Mal-Mode) images to be displayed when images are displayed inline on a webpage. Clicking on the affected images will cause it to display correctly.

There is an experimental CSS tag to force the browsers to honor the EXIF tag, but current only Firefox has beta support for it.

So, bottom line, if the image is showing in the incorrect orientation, just click on it. It then should display correctly.