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Encyclopedia > Macromedia Shockwave

Macromedia Shockwave is frequently confused with Macromedia Flash. Shockwave is Macromedia's first and prior to the advent of Flash also its most successful multimedia player. In an attempt to leverage its name recognition all Macromedia players prepended Shockwave to their names in late 1990s. Although this campaign was very successful and helped establish Shockwave Flash as a dominant multimedia plugin, it made it also more difficult to maintain Shockwave and Flash as two separate products. As of 2005 Macromedia marketed three distinct browser player plugins under the following brand names: Macromedia Authorware, Macromedia Shockwave and Macromedia Flash. Macromedia (NASDAQ: MACR) is a graphics and web development software house. ... Macromedia Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both the Macromedia Flash Player and to a multimedia authoring program used to create content for it. ... Macromedia Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both the Macromedia Flash Player and to a multimedia authoring program used to create content for it. ... SWF (pronounced “swiff” by some, standing for Shockwave Flash) is the file format used by Macromedia Flash. ... SWF (pronounced “swiff” by some, standing for Shockwave Flash) is the file format used by Macromedia Flash. ... A plugin (or plug-in) is a computer program that can, or must, interact with another program to provide a certain, usually very specific, function. ... Authorware History Authorware was originally a company founded in 1987 by Michael Allen as well as the multimedia product produced by Authorware, Inc. ... Macromedia Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both the Macromedia Flash Player and to a multimedia authoring program used to create content for it. ...


Although Macromedia Shockwave was designed for making a wide variety of online movies and animations, its actual use has become concentrated in the area of game development. Shockwave's 3D engine is still unchallenged in this market having replaced Java as the most popular engine for online games. Flash files can be played on a Shockwave player, but not vice versa. Other features not replicated by Flash include a much faster rendering engine, including hardware-accelerated 3D, direct pixel access on bitmap images, blend modes for layered display of graphic assets and support for various network protocols including Internet Relay Chat. Furthermore Shockwave's functionality can be extended with so-called Xtras. Unlike Flash, the Shockwave browser plugin is not available for Linux (or Solaris) despite very vocal lobbying efforts by the Linux community. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of instant communication over the Internet. ... SWF (pronounced “swiff” by some, standing for Shockwave Flash) is the file format used by Macromedia Flash. ... See Linux kernel for the kernel itself. ... Solaris may refer to: Technology Solaris Operating Environment, an operating system from Sun Microsystems Literature & Fiction Solaris (novel), a science fiction book by Stanislaw Lem, made into a film twice. ...


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Macromedia Director is a powerful media application created by Macromedia. ... Macromedia Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both the Macromedia Flash Player and to a multimedia authoring program used to create content for it. ... Macromedia Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both the Macromedia Flash Player and to a multimedia authoring program used to create content for it. ... OpenOffice. ... Swish is effeminate behaviour and interests (camp), emphasized and sanctioned (Kleinberg 1978), in pre-Stonewall gay male communities. ...

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IATA - Help (487 words)
Also there are instances where Macromedia Shockwave or Flash (see below for more information) have been used to enhance Internet content.
Macromedia Shockwave Player and Macromedia Flash Player are both free Web players from Macromedia.
Through Xtras, Shockwave Player is also extensible to play back custom-built applications.
JD on EP: Shockwave vs Flash (678 words)
The Macromedia Shockwave Player is still used in browsers for heavy-lifting tasks (most popular live 3D engine, much wider range of media types, native code extensibility and more), but Director's standalones are where most of the seems to be these days.
Shockwave uses a variety of decompression schemes, and (surprisingly) a simple SWF will usually be smaller when embedded in a Director movie than when delivered on its own.
Posted by: Burak KALAYCI at August 2, 2004 07:34 PM Hi Burak, you're right, the term "Shockwave Flash" was in the name of the plugin, but from all I saw at the time and thereafter, it was never officially in the name of the file format itself.
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