Just curious. I'm sure many food photographers will try that position too.
Given that, OS X Preview has a different approach. It respects the EXIF orientation when you open a file, but when you re-save a file, it silently rotates the file and resets the orientation. Not sure if that is better or worse.
The better way though is to use a class like this: https://github.com/gpambrozio/GusUtils/blob/master/GusUtils/...
I see your point though - it's not trivial. I just happen to have a lot of experience in this area. I do a lot of video/imaging on the iphone.
If you're a developer who needs to occasionally inspect EXIF data from user uploads, please check it out. Contact me if you have additional questions, I'm happy to help.
[0] http://exif.in
Unfortunately, with JPEG this would cause some loss of quality, so we're probably going to have to keep the original quality image as well as the auto-orient'ed image to display on the site. Has anyone here worked on something similar? Any ideas on a better way to handle this would be extremely helpful.
[1] http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#a...
The concern is essentially that there may be many images on the web that have EXIF tags that don't match how those images are being used, specifically because the sites were tested in browsers that ignore the tags. So changing browser behavior now could suddenly break lots of sites that previously looked fine. It sounds like nobody has come up with a good solution yet.
