  Determining the nonperturbative $s\bar{s}$ content of the nucleon has
attracted considerable interest and been the subject of numerous experimental
searches. These measurements used a variety of reactions and place important
limits on the vector form factors observed in parity-violating (PV) elastic
scattering and the parton distributions determined by deep inelastic scattering
(DIS). In spite of this progress, attempts to relate information obtained from
elastic and DIS experiments have been sparse. To ameliorate this situation, we
develop an interpolating model using light-front wave functions capable of
computing both DIS and elastic observables. This framework is used to show that
existing knowledge of DIS places significant restrictions on our wave
functions. The result is that the predicted effects of nucleon strangeness on
elastic observables are much smaller than those tolerated by direct fits to PV
elastic scattering data alone. Using our model, we find $-0.024 \le \mu_s \le
0.035$, and $-0.137 \le \rho^D_s \le 0.081$ for the strange contributions to
the nucleon magnetic moment and charge radius. The model we develop also
independently predicts the nucleon's strange spin content $\Delta s$ and scalar
density $\langle N| \bar{s}s | N \rangle$, and for these we find agreement with
previous determinations.
