New online picture viewer

Microsoft has launched a new picture tool called Seadragon. Available at http://seadragon.com/, you can point Seadragon to any image on the Web, and get a zoomable viewer. It works very simply: give Seadragon the URL (web address) to an image file, and it’ll be fetched. It’ll then process the file and give you a nice page containing your image along with tools to zoom in on it to get fine detail. (You may need to allow a bit of time for the image to come to full resolution on screen, particularly if you have a slow internet connection.) You can also pan the image, pop out to a full-page view, look at the original image, etc.