Remote
Content Into Your Site
This tip is for the webmasters among us.
Often, when you're working on a web page, you may wish to create a link to and image or an object that isn't on your site.
Sure, you can do a screen capture and save things as a file and display the file, but that's not always possible. But suppose the object that you want isn't displayable as a simple image.
A quick option might be to include a link on your site that goes to the remote site. That's a common way to do things and you see it all over the internet. It's the essence of the concept of webbing.
The option is to put the remote content into your page. I did this a couple of months ago with the Flash movie of the Family Literacy Night at J.E. Benson Public School. Modern web browsers support the instruction "iframe". The purpose of this command is to let you inject another webpage or object into your own.
For the Benson example, I used this instruction:
<iframe src="http://www.gecdsb.on.ca/schools/elem/benson/Family
%20Literacy%20Night%20Web%20Gallery/index.html" width=498 height=350></iframe>
and the result looks like this:
The content is not in my directory. If you take a look, you'll see that it's still in the Benson directory on the server.
There are obviously some things that need to be addressed before you use this. First, the original author may not wish to let you embed her/his content into your page. After all, unless proper credit is given, people may think that you created it. It's just a common courtesy to ask the original author for permission.
Secondly, since the content is with someone else, if they move things or delete it, all of a sudden your page may appear to be broken.
However, when you get it all together, code can be reused and well crafted content shared by others.
