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| Paper: |
Aladin Lite: Embed your Sky in the Browser |
| Volume: |
485, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXIII |
| Page: |
277 |
| Authors: |
Boch, T.; Fernique, P. |
| Abstract: |
I will introduce and describe Aladin
Lite1, a
lightweight interactive sky viewer running natively in the browser. The
past five years have seen the emergence of powerful and complex web
applications, thanks to major improvements in JavaScript engines and the
advent of HTML5. At the same time, browser plugins Java applets, Flash,
Silverlight) that were commonly used to run rich Internet applications
are declining and are not well suited for mobile devices. The Aladin
team took this opportunity to develop Aladin Lite, a lightweight version
of Aladin geared towards simple visualization of a sky region. Relying
on the widely supported HTML5 canvas element, it provides an intuitive
user interface running on desktops and tablets. This first version
allows one to interactively visualize multi-resolution HEALPix image
and superimpose tabular data and footprints. Aladin Lite is
easily embeddable on any web page and may be of interest for data
providers which will be able to use it as an interactive previewer for
their own image surveys, previously pre-processed as explained in
details in the poster "Create & publish your Hierarchical Progressive
Survey". I will present the main features of Aladin Lite as well as the
JavaScript API which gives the building blocks to create rich
interactions between a web page and Aladin Lite. |
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