title: Very large images in web browser
body: <p>We would like to display very large (50mb plus) images in Internet Explorer.  We would like to avoid compression as compression algorithms are not what CSI would have us believe that they are and the resulting files are too lossy.</p>
  
  <p>As a result, we have come up with two options: Silverlight Deep Zoom or a Flash based solution (such as Zoomify).  The issue is that both of these require conversion to a tiled output and/or conversion to a specific file type (Zoomify supports a single proprietary file type, PFF).</p>
  
  <p>What we are wondering is if a solution exists which will allow us to view the image without a conversion before hand.</p>
  
  <p>PS: I know that you can write an application to tile the images (as needed or after the load process) and output them; however, we would like to do this without chopping up the file.</p>