Re: FLASH: Flash's future; "DO something about it!!"

[David Mendels]

Hi Troy,


Actually, this is a bit of a misunderstanding. "Flash" is the official name

of the .SWF fileformat.  For a period of time, we used "Shockwave Director"

and "Shockwave Flash", but we found that this was confusing for consumers

and publishers and now the official names are: .swf="Flash" and

.dxr="Shockwave".  .SWF is, as you mention, an Open format.  The Flash

authoring tool makes the Flash format (.SWF), the Director authoring tool

makes Shockwave (.dxr, etc).


Hope this helps,


David

Macromedia


>And specifically refer to it as Shockwave Flash (SWF). Many people call

>the format Flash, but that is a little ambiguous. 


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