Looking for an open source JS mapping API

Question

Here are the requirements:

1. must not rely on any type of known server, i.e. server code (that produces the map images) is not of a known variety
2. supports panning and zooming (image is zoomed on the client)
3. preferably with support for tiling (i.e. pre-fetching image tiles with some simple heuristics)
4. JQuery friendly

The API doesn't have to be specifically for maps. i.e., similar kind of manipulation on an image is also OK.

Answer 1

OpenLayers