847107 - Uploading landscape screenshots of 480x320 fails with validation error

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1034288

(Marketplace Graveyard :: Developer Pages, defect, P3)

Description

[:Harald Kirschner :digitarald]

Fails with error that previews must be at least 320px by 480px, which the picture is.

Reported by cers in #openwebapps.

Comment 1

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Right now our screenshots are requiring 320x240 so our carousel looks good.  It seems like allowing wide screenshots would be appropriate here but rumor has it random screenshot sizes make our carousel behave weirdly (and look ugly).  At some point we probably need larger than 320x240 anyway.

Maria - can you give us some guidance on what sizes we accept and how to show them to end users?

Comment 2

[Maria Sandberg [:mushi]]

I've been talking to dbialer about this and we are planning on adding a cropping tool to the submission flow to help get the correct dimensions of screenshots. For now my recommendation is that we allow screenshots to be uploaded as landscape (with the correction dimensions) and then rotate them to portrait when displayed in the Marketplace. 

That way there is flexibility and we avoid ugly-looking carousels.

Comment 3

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

Maria, we should talk about lifting the 320x480 requirement since if I take a screenshot with my Geeksphone (dimensions 540x960) the screenshot won't be uploadable to the Marketplace. We can file a new bug or something, but I think we need to revisit screenshots/responsive design breakpoints.

Comment 4

[Maria Sandberg [:mushi]]

Chris - agree. I've never pushed for a pixel requirement. Rather, we should have a dimension (width and length ratio) requirement. The UX gang will be in MV Thursday, let's chat then.

Comment 5

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Forward duping because Tony asked to