On Friday 2018-07-06 14:47 +1000, Cameron McCormack wrote:
> https://drafts.csswg.org/css-images-3/#the-image-orientation
> 
> The CSS image-orientation property allows an author to control whether an 
> image (in an <img> or generated content) is automatically rotated and flipped 
> according to the EXIF data in the image.  Originally, the specification only 
> allowed explicit multiple-of-90° <angle> values (and a flip keyword).  When 
> we implemented image-orientation, we supported explicit angle values as well 
> as a keyword to take the orientation from the image itself.
> 
> The specification now deprecates the explicit angle values.  Since Firefox is 
> the only browser to implement this property, I am planning to remove support 
> for the angle values, and file an issue on the spec to remove them entirely.
> 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473450

This sounds good to me.  The remaining piece of the property is just
a toggle that lets developers opt in to honoring the EXIF
orientation in the image, which is useful for sites that want to use
photos without a lot of preprocessing.

-David

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