A technology developed by Macromedia, Inc. that enables
Web pages to include
multimedia objects. To create a shockwave object, you use Macromedia's multimedia
authoring tool called
Director, and then
compress the object with a program called
Afterburner. You then insert a reference to the "shocked" file in your Web page. To see a Shockwave object, you need the Shockwave
plug-in, a program that integrates seamlessly with your
Web browser. The plug-in is freely available from Macromedia's Web site as either a
Netscape Navigator plug-in or an
ActiveX control.
Shockwave supports audio, animation, video and even processes user actions such as mouse clicks. It runs on all Windows platforms as well as the Macintosh.
