Kurt Lang
A little late to this party, but I must disagree.
This is smack dab in the middle of my bailiwick.
There is a distinction between Adobe Shockwave , a platform for delivering Adobe(Macromedia) DIRECTOR content in a browser and Adobe Flash a platform for deliver Adobe(Macromedia) FLASH content.
Adobe Flash is a vector graphics and animation app that has elements of interactivity in it. Was first used for making app-like games and such, then migrated to a primary method (on some sites) for navigating on a browser page. This latter functionality was largely replaced by clever JavaScripts. The advantage to vector was then paramount as bandwidth was precious.
n Adobe Shockwave for Director was the engine that allowed self contained, full blown interactive software delivery in a web page. Normal delivery was on a CDROM or by performance (remember Steve Jobs' big announcement presentations at ALL the early rollouts? = Director). I used this extensively for development collaboration and client approval iterations.
Both players were delivered as separate installs and as a combined install.
Yes indeed , much of their NextBigThing-iness wore of long ago, but Flash ads are still in wide use, as are SOME videos' sites still calling SWF players in their scripts.
That final point is why one still needs FLASH PLAYER to work.
The defense rests.
CCC
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