Seadragon is among the best project created by Microsoft Live Labs, for use in it other projects like Photosynth. The Seadragon project reveals a new pixel zooming technology which offers smooth, seamless browsing of vast quantities of visual information, on wall sized displays or mobile devices, regardless of the amount of data. Seadragon is designed to inspire and enable new scenarios for viewing information online. It combines several new technologies to progressively retrieve large amounts of data using a fast, seamless, zoom-based interface. Seadragon works with all types of content, from wall-sized displays to cell phones, regardless of the amount of data or the bandwidth of the network.
Seadragon is a marvelous technology based on pure HTML5, instead of Flash and Microsoft’s very own Silverlight. However, Microsoft does have a huge history of screwing up all good stuff and it might be possible if Microsoft, in order to promote its Silverlight, replaces Seadragon’s base from HTML5 to damn Silverlight.
Seadragon is open for everyone and users and upload their images on any photo sharing service and provide Seadragon the link to convert it, and embed it on any website or blog with ease. Visit http://www.seadragon.com/ to see for yourself! In my opinion, if Seadragon gains popularity usage by developers and bloggers worldwide, it can change and revolutionize the way we use to view visual information on the web.
Here’s a few tricks show what Seadragon is capable of:
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