I would go with Mirador hands down. It is already cool and it has an active development community who get what MSS are about (full disclosure, my center is part of that community). More importantly. It is IIIF compliant which is a powerful standard for exposing ms images for scholarly research and use. 

Jim


On Wednesday, February 18, 2015, Sara L. Uckelman <s.l.uckelman@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
Yesterday I attended a planning meaning concerning the Durham priory
library's manuscript collection, which is planned for digitisation
over the next 5-10 years.  A question came up about whether there's
been any study done on the relative *technical* merits of different
platforms/programmes for viewing manuscripts, either online or
downloaded locally.  (The person was specifically interested in reviews
or comparisons done by people with the relevant computational know-
how).

I confess to not being very familiar with this terrain; I've used
Uni-HD's reader online (see, e.g., the Manesse codex:
http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg848/0001?sid=c1e158af8bb04a02441c48d73cfba985)
and the reader used by, e.g.,
http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0000/bsb00001649/images/, but I
don't even know what the programmes behind these sites are!  The one
that was demonstrated to us is Mirador:
http://www.biblissima-condorcet.fr/en/news/interoperable-viewer-prototype-now-online-mirador, http://iiif.io/, and it was really
cool.  I'd love to know how it stacks up against the competition.

Cheers,
-Sara


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