CIF : Viewports : Subdirectories : educate/flash

The educate/flash subdirectory contains whatever CIF modules are installed locally on the participating Viewport web site, if any. Unless you are an authorized mirror site the best way to ensure that your Viewport has current and accurate content is to use remote provisioning over the Internet. In these cases your educate/flash subdirectory will not contain any actual CIF content modules. Since CIF Viewports are designed for remote content provisioning over the Internet, on most Viewports this directory will not actually contain any physical copies of CIF modules. Because one of the goals of the CIF standard is to permit distributed maintenance of CIF modules, Viewport sites should not clone the actual CIF content modules from other CIF provisioning sites without permission from the provisioning sites. This may be done with permission to create mirror sites. Since CIF maintenance sites do their updates on master copies residing on their own web sites, mirror clones may become obsolete quickly.

It must contain a file called index.html which gives an overview of the CIF content modules which are physically resident on that Viewport. If the web designer does not want to let the user view this information directly this page should simply explain that the flash subdirectory is not public information.
If the Viewport is serving as an authoring or maintenance site for the CIF network the educate/flash directory will contain one or more subdirectories, each containing a single CIF module or set of related CIF modules. For example, a CIF tutorial on roses might be placed in a subdirectory called educate/flash/roses.
If it contains any actual CIF module subdirectories, the educate/flash directory must contain a Cascading Style Sheet template called cif.css which contains the CIF look and feel specifications for locally-installed CIF modules. To maintain maximum compatibility with the CIF standard this style sheet will normally be a copy of the default cif.css style sheet which resides in the main educate directory. The option to override the default is provided for in the CIF standard to allow for special cases of custom content provisioning.

Overview

Directory Structure

Directories : educate

Subdirectories : educate/template

Subdirectories : educate/graphics

Subdirectories : educate/flash

Subdirectories : educate/sitemaps

Subdirectories : educate/testing

Using Standard Viewports

Developing Custom Viewports

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