Developer's Guide

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Cisco Interactive Experience Platform Content Creation Guidelines
Chapter 1 Content Types
Content Types
– Video Collaboration, page 1-7
– Video Feeds, page 1-8
– RSS feeds, page 1-9
– Applications, page 1-9
– Content Rendering, page 1-9
Content Types
Content may range from video clips, Flash animations, static images, or HTML pages. Content can be
facilitated by incorporating standard multimedia file types such as MPEG, WMV, JPEG, GIF, TIF,
WMA, etc. JavaScript applications can be developed to enable various functionalities (event triggers to
change signage content, etc.). Video and graphics can be interlaced.
HTML
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) version 4 is supported by the IEC4600 Series. There is also early
support for version 5.
Both HTML caching and offline caching are supported on COBRA.
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used to define content presentation including colors, fonts, layout, etc.
CSS can either be embedded in the HTML or can be provided by a separate file which is referenced from
within the HTML. The IEC4600 Series supports CSS version 3.
Graphics
IEC4600 Series supports the following graphic file formats:
• JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, BMP
• Interlaced PNG, Interlaced GIF, Progressive JPEG
• Transparent GIF, Transparent PNG
• Animated GIF
Animations/Flash
Flash up to version 11 is supported by the IEC4600 Series. Use of Flash should be limited to small size
and non-video rendering functionality.
The Adobe Flash animation format is a proprietary file format originally developed by Macromedia (now
Adobe). One of the primary advantages of Flash animation is that it supports the ActionScript
programming language, allowing for a Flash animation to be embedded in an HTML page and played
back with a browser plug-in rather than requiring an external application to be launched in the operating
system background to play the file.