What is Flash and Shockwave?
“Flash” and “Shockwave” are both multi-media players developed by Macromedia. The Flash Player is designed to display high-impact Web sites, combining elegant vector graphics, sound, and interactivity into overall user interface and site navigation. Currently, Flash is in its version 5. At the same time, its competitor Adobe has its competitive product “LiveMotion 2” to capture the ever-increasing 2D animation market. The Shockwave Player allows Internet surfers to view new forms of entertainment on the Web. Many new entertaining Web applications are delivered with the Shockwave Player, such as games, music, rich-media chat, interactive product demos, and e-merchandising applications. Since both Flash and Shockwave adopted the “open standard” in development, most operating systems like Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP, Apple Macintosh System 8, Netscape 4+, Internet Explorer 4+, etc., all have Flash (version 3 or above) and Shockwave Player built-in. In case you can’t find them or you want to
