Sean Whalen
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Photo Sphere] Stuck on "Loading…"Paddy,
That warning is telling you that a future version of your browser will not allow a script to access a device’s orientation (i.e. compass readings) unless your site is delivered over HTTPS (which generally involves buying and installing an SSL certificate – something that your host could probably help with.) That isn’t related to your current issue, but it’s a good practice anyway.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Photo Sphere] Wont load on mobileTurns out this only fixed Firefox for Android. Maybe Firefox’s memory management isn’t so good? 😛
Chrome for Android still will not display the image. I’ll have to wait until I get home to fire up the remote debugger and investigate.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Photo Sphere] Wont load on mobileI’ve implemented the fix described above, and it works! (WordPress 4.4+)
https://github.com/JeremyHeleine/WP-Photo-Sphere/pull/10
Hopefully Jeremy can merge my changes soon. In the meantime, you can just replace wp-photo-sphere.php with this version.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/seanthegeek/WP-Photo-Sphere/master/wp-photo-sphere.php
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Photo Sphere] Wont load on mobileI’ve figured out the cause of this error. Photo spheres from the Ricoh Theta S, which are 14 megapixels, work fine on all devices (Desktop, iOS, and Android – Chrome and Firefox). However, larger photo spheres, like this sample 32 megapixel one from the Iris360 often fail somewhat randomly on mobile devices, just like what has been described in the first post of this thread. Looking in the Firefox for Android console, I see that WebGL runs out of memory when the viewer tries to display these larger spheres on mobile devices.
It would seem then, that the solution to this issue would be to leverage the new automatic responsive image functions built into WordPress 4.4, to use a lower-resolution version when viewed on mobile devices. That would save bandwidth and loading time too. The commercial panorama viewer krpano takes this approach for mobile, and it works well. However, I like your UI and WordPress integration better. 🙂
