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The WorldWide Telescope web client lets you explore the universe in your browser.
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Instructions on how to start SAMP? #104

Closed astrofrog closed 5 years ago

astrofrog commented 8 years ago

The following page mentions that there is a SAMP interface to WWT:

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Researchers/

Is this available in the web client version of WWT? If so, would it be possible to add instructions on how to start this, and outline which SAMP messages WWT understands?

astrojonathan commented 8 years ago

Currently SAMP is only supported on the Windows Client. There is currently significant effort going on in improving the web client, and the infrastructure to support needed to support the visualization of Web SAMP compatible data types means that we will be a step closer to supporting it.

doctorspaceman commented 8 years ago

There is an example of using SAMP to connect WWT (Desktop Client) to TOPCAT:

www.worldwidetelescope.org/Learn/Exploring#UsingVOTables.

As Jonathan said, we are putting in the groundwork to enable SAMP in the webclient as we speak. If you have anything specific you'd like to see or any tests let us know by responding to this issue.

astrojonathan commented 5 years ago

SAMP may be a non starter on web because of Security changes in browsers.