Bugs when used on iPad or mobile phone

[pmetras]

For version 3.5+

Here are a few bugs I encountered when testing MyPhotoShare (v3.4beta4 installed with Debian installer) with mobile devices.

iPad (old model)

1. When an album content is first accessed, the pictures are not displayed (the picture borders fills the screen but the image is not visible). Then I try to show them full screen and they are not displayed either. I quit full screen mode and the it comes to displaying the pictures with the album content strip bellow (this is not the same display as what viewed before the full screen mode). I must precise that test data media are pictures whose file names contains special characters. Is it related?
2. I was unable to have search working on the iPad.

Mobile phone

1. Two previous iPad bugs don't occur on Android phone. Search and albums browsing are working. But full screen mode does not display the picture (like iPad).

[pmetras]

It seems that iPad and mobile phone are using the original picture (from albums directory) for full screen display (or perhaps iPad bug) while the PC version is using a large picture (from cache directory). In my case, albums directory is not accessible from the Web, reason why photos are not displayed.

[paolobenve]

albums directory must be accessible from the web: depending on the screen size, the cache image or the original one is choosen, so that it must not be enlarged, since enlarging produces blurring

Besides that, original image is presented when selecting download or original link.

[pmetras]

I don't give access to the original pictures for multiple reasons:

• albums directory is not web browseable. Only the scanner and the content owner can access it. Web content should be available from cacheonly. If the installer decided that original pictures can be viewed on the web, then they should be copied into cache. There're no reasons to allow direct access to originals... We never give access to original video that is transcoded, so why do it with photos?
• The files are > 10MB pictures, while only 600 KB when resized at 1200 pixels. Originals are at > 5000 pixels width.
• For privacy reasons, I don't want to give access to the full EXIF data I have in original pictures. When photos are transcoded by the scanner, EXIF data is stripped out of the files and this information is not available on the web but only in the properties window, for selected metadata.

First, I don't understand why my old mobile devices, with small screen sizes, need to access pictures larger than 1200 pixels. Their screens don't have that much pixels...

Next, I've added a new reduced size of 2400 in myphotoshare.conf. I'll check what will be the result on the iPad and phone when scanner runs this night.

I've also added a new size equal to my camera sensor width. I want to check what will be the filesize of the resulting picture files. We know that pictures must not be upsized. If it works, perhaps it should be added automatically by the scanner instead of letting the web application access the albums directory.

[pmetras]

The bug (photos not displayed) is still there on the iPad, even with the new reduced_sizes added. But it could be browser cache related now. I've installed Chrome on the iPad and I can see all photos now. I'll have to change the server cache timeouts and test again...

[pmetras]

I forgot one reason why someone would not want to give access to the original media is for professional or semi-professional photographers.