On 12/12/11 9:47 PM, Andrew Gray wrote:
On 12 December 2011 19:22, Möller, Carstenc.moeller@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