According the About page the service convert the image to the Deep Zoom format (part of Silverlight technology). And afterwards, it is possible to explore the whole image in a convenient way. This may be true on Windows but on Linux it’s still a pain. Zoom.it via kwout

I just discovered that there is an Silverlight implementation for Linux called Moonlight: Moonlight via kwout The functionalities of Moonlight are summurazided below: Moonlight via kwout