I’ve noticed that the ‘thumbnail’ of uploaded pictures is not completely scaled-to-fit, it is cropped when showing in portrait view on mobile.
Might it be more sensible/possible to scale-to-fit the pictures instead, so the right edge always shows? Currently it can lead to awkward looking composition, e.g. chopped off objects or half people.
Let me be more specific - this is particular an issue on iPhone 6/7/8 and landscape images which is a very common use case.
This would also presumably have the additional benefit of reducing the thumbnail vertical real-estate which on mobile is clearly scarce.
Thanks!
PS Any way of hacking this via Theme/CSS, similar to request here?
Refining my search criteria to see if this has been asked before, reveals the following, but former is CLOSED, however I feel this is still an issue in a very popular use case:
Your problem is landscape images on mobile, correct? As far as I know, landscape images are responsive. They scale and don’t get cut off.
The topics linked address extra long portrait images. Which is where I’m a little bit confused
Are you seeing the issue on your phone or in browser dev tools? Is there anyway you can upload an image like you described here? If I get the same result and there’s anything that I know how to do about it with CSS I’ll help
On desktop, I have no issue. On production iOS a standard landscape photo from my iPhone 7 does not scale to fit, it is cropped.
I guess the solution needs to take into account all likely use cases, but it would just be nice if vanilla 4:3 landscape wasn’t cropped, just scaled to fit. Perhaps I’ve breached a size limit?
The topics linked were linked because they cover the same functionality, if not the identical use case (4:3 in my case, long tall on at least one of those links)
btw, I don’t think I’d want to see 16:9 cropped either.
This is not just an issue for artists, imagine showing a 16:9 graph …
I’ve not tackled this from the developer seat, so please forgive me if this is an impossible circle to square given all competing use cases.