presenting high resolution and wide panorama images, zoomify or ???

[Jeff]

I'm looking to present a panorama image -- not a 360 degree panorama, but simply a large 4000 pixel wide x 700 pixel high very wide image on a webpage.

Zoomify is one option -- really simple from photoshop's export menu, but I can't seem to set the starting view to one side instead of the center of the image which it defaults to. Maybe I just have to look deeper for that option.

I could simply use an iframe with a scroll bar to get the job done, but that seems old-school now...

Anyone have some other neat options for presenting a very wide image on a web page?

[Tom E.]

How about mimicking the dragging of Google Maps?

This would be a simplified case: there's only one image, so you wouldn't have to swap images if you leave the current "map". Also, you only have to drag horizontally.

The book PHP Hacks by O'Reilly (even though it's mostly javascript) contains an example of how to do a multiple-image map scroller.

- Tom