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I love panoramas! A few usability comments:

1) I would really like the "hand" mode to be the default. It took me a while to figure out I could change it.

2) I would like an easy way to load the whole picture in my browser at full resolution so that I can scroll horizontally at will.

3) Related, one approach to 2 that I've done on another site is to automatically resize the picture to the maximum height of the user's browser when they go in view full screen mode.

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>1) I would really like the "hand" mode to be the default. It took me a while to figure out I could change it.

I agree. Auto scroll combined with hover scroll is giving me a headache.

There should also be a way to get the image to hold still when using the hand mode.

The "hand vs scroll" issue is a problem. I asked a few of my friends but the results were 50:50. That's why I'm still not sure which one to make the default.

Anyway, thank for your suggestions!

Hand mode needs to be default.

It's a commonly accepted UI paradigm that the mouse needs to be 'engaged' (via a button press) in order to have a functional effect on the UI. In the non-engaged mode mouse is only used for indicating otherwise actionable UI elements.

I think the hand should have some physics. If you hold and flick, the scrolling should accelerate depending on the speed of the flick.

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