On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 3:45 PM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> 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 Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
