Flash is authored with Macromedia Flash
Shockwave is authored with Macromedia Director.
Director and Authorware is authored with Macromedia Director and Authorware.
Director hasn't had a new player in about 4-5 years.
Most of what makes Shockwave different from Flash has been incorporated
into the more recent Flash releases since the flash player is so light
weight.
Flash 7 is more like Shockwave than Flash 5.
The older shockwave files aren't backwards compatible with the newer
flash players unless the original content provider does an upgrade which
is highly unlikely
I wish:
Apple would release a 'certified' Quicktime player/plugin for Linux
Flash become the de-facto standard for streaming media.
Although _we_ can get mplayer to work, all it is is really a hack and
it'll never make it mainstream because of licensing.
Flash and Real are the only alternatives for mainstream multimedia for
Linux at the moment and Flash is pretty consistent.
Glitch wrote:
>Well just for my two cents when I click on the file using Firefox 1.0
>under win2k it says that it is a shockwave flash Object and wants to
>use a shockwave player to access it... But I don't know if that makes
>it a shockwave file or not.
>
>On 4/19/05, Bryan.ONeal@asu.edu <Bryan.ONeal@asu.edu> wrote:
>
>
>>Well, at least I was not the only one who was thinking shockwave when I saw
>>.swf Though it makes me wounder more why the did not work on my FC2 box but
>>some flash sites did...
>>
>>Sigh, it is times like this I am glad to say, what do I know I'm just an
>>accountant ;)
>>
>>
>>On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Mike Hoy wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Bryan.ONeal@asu.edu wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I am also a huge foamy fan! (all hale our furry master)
>>>>But I have to watch on my Mac as I have not gotten SW to work on my FC2
>>>>box... Though I have not tried it on my Ubuntu box yet... Hmmmm
>>>>
>>>>And even on the Mac (OSX rite now) I can not get a bunch of the shockwave
>>>>plugins working... like the game plugin.
>>>>On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Mike Hoy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>fwiw i'm using fc3 and mozilla firefox. but as we have found out they're
>>>not shockwave files on that site, they're flash.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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