157813 - Add support for image rotate to image manipulation APIs

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Graphics: ImageLib, defect)

Description

[Nisheeth Ranjan]

This feature was requested by the You've Got Pictures group in Irvine and could
prove to be useful to many other customers...

Comment 1

[timeless]

shaver, would your opengl js bindings work?

Comment 2

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

Almost certainly not.

Comment 3

[Marek Z. Jeziorek]

batch: adding topembed per Gecko2 document
http://rocknroll.mcom.com/users/marek/publish/Gecko/Gecko2Tasks.html

Comment 4

[Jaime Rodriguez, Jr.]

Marking as topembed+/nsbeta1+, as it is desired by major embedding partners.

Comment 5

[saari (gone)]

->jdunn, CC'ing glazman as he has been thinking about this stuff

Comment 6

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

Yep. I could add a ninth handle centered in images when a single image is
selected.

Comment 7

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

how would rotating the image be useful?

Comment 8

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

2 possibilities:

1) this is a mozilla-feature only and we could add a proprietary CSS property
   -moz-rotate taking an angle for argument
2) this should be cross-browser and then the original image needs to be modified.
   in email, that's easy since the binary is attached to the message; in html
   editor for the web, that's different...

Comment 9

[Cathleen]

Is this still needed for embedders?  Or is this feature already been done?  not
sure if Jim is the right owner.

Comment 10

[Cathleen]

talked to saari.  this feature is not needed for major embedding customers
topembed-

Comment 11

[Robert La Ferla]

Rotating the image is useful because users who insert images from a digital camera 
or scanner will many times have them flipped or rotated incorrectly.  This would
allow them to fix it in the composer which takes less time and effort than
opening another application, loading the image, rotating it, saving it, closing
down the application and then inserting it into the e-mail message.

Comment 12

[Bobby Holley (:bholley)]

This is possible now with CSS transforms. See https://developer.mozilla.org/En/CSS/Using_CSS_transforms

Resolving as fixed.