Re: FLASH: Shockwave VS Flash??

[Bryan Rieger]

Pete,


I believe that Macromedia is now bundling the download of the 

Shockwave and Flash players in one download. Before (Shockwave 7) you 

used to have to download Shockwave for Director, Shockwave for 

Authorware (which is still a separate download) and the Flash players 

all separately.


Shockwave is the player for Director files through a browser, the 

Flash player is included as part of the download - but is not the 

same thing. It only handles swf files - which as I was informed by 

someone at Macromedia stood for "Small Web File"...


Maybe Macromedia should look at merging the two technologies to avoid 

any further confusion - especially now that the Flash file format is 

so tightly integrated with Director and Shockwave?


>Ken,

>

>But isn't a Flash swf file, technically, a type of Shockwave file, 

>using Shockwave

>technology? (Doesn't "swf" stand for "Shockwave for Flash" or 

>"Shockwave Flash"?)

>And, by common practice, we've just come to call Director output for the web

>"Shockwave" and Flash output for the web "Flash," but both use their 

>variant of

>the Shockwave technology?

>

>You can find Flash content at http://www.shockwave.com.

>

>Pete Benedict

>

petebennyd [dot] com

Cheers,


Bryan Rieger

Producer/Developer - Necessary Madness

bryannmadness [dot] com

http://www.nmadness.com


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