Deep Zoom without Silverlight
In a move that I wouldn’t have bet a dollar on, Live Labs released a purely JavaScript Deep Zoom client. You read that right, what was so far one of the nice features only found in Silverlight is now available in an open web, standards-based version. Seadragon.embed("451px", "338px", "http://seadragon.com/content/images/CarinaNebula.dzi", 29566, 14321, 254, 1, "jpg"); Of course, from a technical standpoint, Deep Zoom is just commoditizing what Google Maps made possible years ago in pure script so there wasn’t really a reason why this couldn’t be done, except smoother transitions and zooming but that’s pretty tenuous. The great thing about this new library is that the tools to create the Deep Zoom image
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