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Tim Lodge · 05-01-2012, 09:52 AM

I've just come across an oddity that you might be interested in. It was new to me, but could be familiar to the rest of you.

One of my clients reported - at second hand - that some images on their website were displaying on their sides or upside down when viewed with Safari on the iPad. A quick search with Google found the reason: some digital cameras embed the orientation of the camera in the EXIF data for the image, and the iPad respects that information, while other browsers with Windows or OS X ignore it. If the photographer held the camera on its side, that's the way the photo displays on the iPad.

The solution was pretty easy, too - I used Irfanview to delete the EXIF data from the images in question. Verifying that it had worked was more difficult! Eventually, I was able to borrow an iPad from one of my neighbours and found that everything was OK.

Just another tip to store away for the future.

terrie · 05-01-2012, 10:15 AM

Interesting...I wonder if that's why the last two photos my sister sent me were upside down in the email in which the photos were sent--she has an iPhone and I'm using Thunderbird for that email account. I'll have to pull the photos into Photoshop and check the EXIF data...

Terrie

05-01-2012, 09:52 AM	#1
Tim Lodge Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: UK Posts: 34	Safari on iPad Quirk I've just come across an oddity that you might be interested in. It was new to me, but could be familiar to the rest of you. One of my clients reported - at second hand - that some images on their website were displaying on their sides or upside down when viewed with Safari on the iPad. A quick search with Google found the reason: some digital cameras embed the orientation of the camera in the EXIF data for the image, and the iPad respects that information, while other browsers with Windows or OS X ignore it. If the photographer held the camera on its side, that's the way the photo displays on the iPad. The solution was pretty easy, too - I used Irfanview to delete the EXIF data from the images in question. Verifying that it had worked was more difficult! Eventually, I was able to borrow an iPad from one of my neighbours and found that everything was OK. Just another tip to store away for the future. __________________ Regards Tim Tim Lodge

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05-01-2012, 10:15 AM	#2
terrie Staff Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 6,559	Interesting...I wonder if that's why the last two photos my sister sent me were upside down in the email in which the photos were sent--she has an iPhone and I'm using Thunderbird for that email account. I'll have to pull the photos into Photoshop and check the EXIF data... Terrie