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> It is used for displaying a search result in a table which has like a million rows. Since it is not possible to actually show all the entries, the image instead is placed in a scrollable div and the scroll position is used as a reference for which part of the results to show. And on a 300dpi screen it's a little over 1.5km only. ;)

Not a daily WTF at all

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For “deep zoom” applications, such as microscope slide images or a “google maps” app, I can imagine that developers get the idea to let the browser do the panning/zooming. Then you could run into limits like this. But he should have tested if this works before building the app.

Hi superjan, you seem to be working on related stuff (and also in c#?), it could be useful to connect, can you contact me at jan@slidescore.com

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