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Reference
Glossary
ShockwaveShockwave is a proprietary technology that enables Web pages to deliver
multimedia objects. Macromedia developed Shockwave as a Web-sized way
to view the products of its popular authoring tool, Director. Once the
object is made in Director and compressed using Macromedia's AfterBurner,
that object can be embedded in an HTML
file. To see a Shockwave object, your Web browser must have the Shockwave
helper application, an extra doodad that can be freely downloaded as either
a Netscape Navigator plug-in or an
ActiveX control. The problem with Shockwave, however, is the problem that
plagues all plug-ins: A Web experience is greatly degraded when you're told that you can't see
or hear something because you need another component for your browser. But
as plug-ins go, Shockwave is excellent. Recent versions support not only
video, animation, and audio, but can also process user events like clicks
and keystrokes.
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