Pictures Bug

[cam2s]

Hi Robert. I recently created a thread entitled "Kirby Heritage II estate sale find." I created the thread and uploaded the pictures using my iPhone. The pictures view correctly on my iPhone but do not view correctly from my MacBook. Just thought I'd let you know.

Thanks
Cameron

 

[unimatic1140]

Hi Cameron, many websites have this issue with iPhone and iPad photos, this isn't a bug on the websites. I've recently researched this and it appears until Apple releases a way for websites to read their image format properly there isn't much we can do. The only fix for this is to build a specific iPhone App like Facebook has, unfortunately that isn't something I can take on right now.

 

[cam2s]

Thanks for the info, I'll keep that in mind in the future. Otherwise everything looks great on here!

Cameron

 

[jfalberti]

That's curious

All the pictures I post on here are taken with my iPhone 4s, or my iPad 2 and they all display properly on my iMac, MacBook Pro, and my PC after posting to this site.  I just recently posted pictures of my Hoover Elite find in the Vintage forum, and they were taken with my iPhone.  I wonder what the problem is.  Guess I'll have to do some research into it.  Question:  Are you posting directly from your iPhone, or are you syncing the pictures with a camera app (iTunes, Photoshop, etc) and then posting them here?  When I post mine, I post them from Photostream, which is a service in iCloud that makes photos taken with any of my Apple devices available to any of my other Apple devices.  Maybe that has something to do with it?

 

[earthling177]

I believe it's not a bug per se, but a bad interaction between the way people take pictures with their mobile devices and the software we use to see the pictures.

When you take the pictures with the mobile devices, the "home button" should be either on the bottom or to the right -- if you take pictures with the home button anywhere else, the device will shoot the picture and mark it (properly speaking, the picture will have metadata in the EXIF Orientation or Rotation tags saying the picture is 90CW, 180CW or 270CW) so that the end-user software can properly rotate the picture so it can be seen the way it was taken, instead of upside down or to the side.

Some browsers will show the picture correctly if you right-click the picture and tell it to open the picture in a new window/tab, some will not.

In any case (and please keep in mind I'm not an expert in web stuff), here's what you get when you right-click the pictures and choose "inspect element":

The picture is displayed "in-line" with the thread, you get code like < img src="http://www.vacuumland.org/TD/JPEG/VINTAGE/2013/cam2s++5-19-2013-21-21-35.jpg" width="1000" height="747" align="absbottom"> and

The picture is opened in new window you get code like < img style="-webkit-user-select: none" src="http://www.vacuumland.org/TD/JPEG/VINTAGE/2013/cam2s++5-19-2013-21-21-35.jpg">

I'm not sure how to fix the situation, but I figured that people who deal with web software will probably recognize if something is wrong and how it can be fixed.

Cheers,
-- Paulo.