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later versions, Flash morphed into a solid application platform, with player
implementations in cell phones, handheld devices, and even billboards. With a
huge base of installed Web-based players??”as of this writing, well over 90 percent
of browsers can view basic Flash content??”Flash is an excellent way to
liven up a Web page.
But Flash is not Adobe??™s only solution for building interactive presentations for
the Web. To many Web designers, Shockwave has represented the state of the art
in Web interactivity since Adobe (formerly Macromedia) first created the format
in 1995. With Shockwave, multimedia files created in Adobe??™s flagship CD-ROM
authoring package, Director, can be compiled to run in a browser window. This
functionality gives Web designers the capability to build just about anything??”
including interactive Web interfaces with buttons that look indented when
pushed, arcade-style games, multimedia Web front-ends, and complete Web
sites built entirely in Director??”bringing a CD-ROM look-and-feel to the Web.
Today, Shockwave continues to be an important force on the Web, as the ongoing
success of Adobe-started Shockwave.com amply demonstrates.
As you might expect, Adobe makes it easy to incorporate Flash and Shockwave
files into your Dreamweaver projects.
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