A new version of the Microsoft Deep Zoom Composer has been released, one of the cool things that it can now do is generate a Javascript Deep Zoom viewing client! Which is great when you want to allow people to view Deep Zoom images when you can't install a Silverlight client. The Javascript version is a bit slow though but I guess that's mainly because it's displaying images with the web browser's IMG display algos. But hey.. it's an alternative if you want to use it.

The other interesting tidbit is that the image generation tools is now a .Net ASSEMBLY!!! So no more hacking command line tools to generate your DeepZoom images, this opens up a LOT of doors for future integration and expansion.

Let me just insert this into my Deep Zoom Album creator program... hmmm.. oh oh.. what's the redistribution rights of the DLL?