Re: FLASH: Shockwave plugin arrived with Netscape 4.08

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dave..


>Today I put Netscape Navigator 4.08 on  one of our Macs that hadn't previously had a browser.<<


Netscape actually started to bundle the flash plugin with Navigator 4.07



>>Is the Flash plugin also "bundled" with an Internet Explorer download?<<


eerrr, dunno. just tried to find out on the microsoft site - no joy. I think they started

to include it with IE 4.5.. but can't be sure. "flash" does, however, come pre-installed

on Mac OS 8.5 as well as Windows 98.



>>2.  Users only need 1 plugin to play Shockwave Director (.dcr) movies and Shockwave

Flash (.swf) movies, correct?<<


nope. there are two seperate plugins: the flash plugin which will only let you see .swf

movies

and the shockwave director plugin, which will let you see both .dcr & .swf (macromedia

apparently seperated the two because the 'flash' plugin download is a lot smaller than the

director one)



>>But when the new browser reached my Shockwave Director pages, it went off to the

Macromedia site and did another download.  Can anyone tell me why this happened?<<


because you haven't installed the shockwave plugin...




hope this helps!


jamie


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