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# Sean Whalen

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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[WP Photo Sphere] Stuck on "Loading…"](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-on-loading-4/)
 *  [Sean Whalen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spw/)
 * (@spw)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-on-loading-4/#post-6865659)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[WP Photo Sphere] Wont load on mobile](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wont-load-on-mobile/)
 *  [Sean Whalen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spw/)
 * (@spw)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wont-load-on-mobile/page/2/#post-6729072)
 * Turns 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](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[WP Photo Sphere] Wont load on mobile](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wont-load-on-mobile/)
 *  [Sean Whalen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spw/)
 * (@spw)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wont-load-on-mobile/#post-6729070)
 * I’ve implemented the fix described above, and it works! (WordPress 4.4+)
 * [https://github.com/JeremyHeleine/WP-Photo-Sphere/pull/10](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](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/seanthegeek/WP-Photo-Sphere/master/wp-photo-sphere.php)
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[WP Photo Sphere] Wont load on mobile](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wont-load-on-mobile/)
 *  [Sean Whalen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spw/)
 * (@spw)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wont-load-on-mobile/#post-6729069)
 * I’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](https://www.nctechimaging.com/new/wp-content/uploads/nctech-iris-beta-pano2.jpg)
   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](https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/android/addon/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](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/11/10/responsive-images-in-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](http://krpano.com/)
   takes this approach for mobile, and it works well. However, I like your UI and
   WordPress integration better. 🙂

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