AJAX viewer zoom slider

[Jason Birch]

Is it just me, or does having a zoom slider where the top 1/3 is
dedicated to scales greater than 1:1 not make any sense?  This appears
to be the case in the maps that I have made that don't have base layers.
 
The slider function itself appears to use a pretty good algorithm to
zoom progressively, but I think that it might be more useful if:
 - It was integer-based, and/or
 - It was possible to specify min/max scales for a given map
 
I put in a defect report for this a while back:
https://mapguide.osgeo.org/servlets/Scarab?id=MG146
 
In the meantime, can anyone suggest a workaround?
 
Thanks,
Jason