> Apologies if I'm missing something but is there any reason why we can't do > image rotation on the client using the canvas JavaScript api?
Client side rotation takes ages, especially with big files. > Agreed! Most of that probably should be non-destructive editing that keeps > the original and applies crop/rotate/filters along with thumbnailing as > necessary. I suggest that we keep status quo. It has worked perfect for years. Just fixing thumbs does not fix the file itself and we want to have the file itself fixed. > Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 19:30:44 +0800 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Provide a well-performing API to rotate an image > > Apologies if I'm missing something but is there any reason why we can't do > image rotation on the client using the canvas JavaScript api? > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 3:45 PM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Brion Vibber wrote: > > >Allowing override of the thumb rotation would provide you real time > > >rotation... > > > > > >I'm not sure about the need to rotate the original file; ideally original > > >files should be left as-is and kept archival. > > > > In my opinion, we need to solve image rotation as part of a larger project > > to support in-browser rasterized image manipulation. A bot shouldn't be > > necessary here. We should have the ability, in a Web browser, to crop, > > rotate, and make other basic manipulations to rasterized images. The fact > > that we have a media repository using software called MediaWiki that > > doesn't include an in-browser basic photo editor is pretty silly. > > > > Agreed! Most of that probably should be non-destructive editing that keeps > the original and applies crop/rotate/filters along with thumbnailing as > necessary. That'll take some more infrastructure work though. > > Of course if you're going to draw on a picture that'll require uploading a > new version. > > -- brion > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
