title: Deep Zoom Collection in Javascript Canvas
body: <p>I need to create a deep zoom mosaic in an HTML5 Canvas Element with thousands of roughly 512x512 images, but I want to reinvent the wheel as little as possible.</p>
  
  <p>So rather than combining tons and tons of large images into one then creating a Deep Zoom Image, I'd rather make a load of deep zoom images and create a Deep Zoom Collection, but Seadragon doesn't support the DZC format.</p>
  
  <p>The way I see it I have three other options, which are</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Start from scratch, create a viewer which deals with loading DZC files</li>
  <li>Extend Seadragon to allow it to handle DZC files</li>
  <li>Create some way to parse the DCZ file, process it's relevant images and turn it into a huge DZI file</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I was hoping I could get a bit of advice here, maybe a sounding board from someone with more experience in Deep Zoom and the XML format it uses to recommend which would be the easiest and best considering I have a tight deadline.</p>
  
  <p>Any advice would be awesome. Thanks!</p>