12.3.4.204 (Win), 12.2.5.195 (Mac) / June 12, 2018; 6 months ago ( 2018-06-12), (Universal) Multimedia Player / type: application/x-director Website Adobe Shockwave Player (formerly Macromedia Shockwave Player) is a for viewing and in, content created on the platform. Content is developed with and published on the Internet. Such content can be viewed in a on any computer with the Shockwave Player plug-in installed.
It was first developed by, and released in 1995 and was later acquired by in 2005. Shockwave Player runs published by the environment. Shockwave Player supports, basic, and an embedded scripting language called. Hundreds of free online video games were developed using Shockwave, and published on websites such as and Shockwave.com. As of July 2011, a survey found that Flash Player had 99% market penetration in desktop browsers in 'mature markets' (United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand), while Shockwave Player claimed only 41% in these markets.
Adobe Shockwave Player Description: With Shockwave Player, you can enjoy multimedia games, learning applications, and product demonstrations on the Web, using exciting new 3D technology.
As of 2015, is a suitable alternative to Shockwave Player, with its. Flash Player cannot display Shockwave content, and Shockwave Player cannot display Flash content. Main article: The Shockwave player was originally developed for the by Macromedia Director team members Harry Chesley, John Newlin, and Ken Day, influenced by a previous plug-in that Macromedia had created for Microsoft's. Version 1.0 of Shockwave was released independent of Director 4 and its development schedule has coincided with the release of Director since version 5.
Its version has since been tied to Director's, thus there were no Shockwave 2–4 releases. Shockwave 1 The Shockwave plug-in for Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released in 1995, along with the stand-alone Afterburner utility to compress Director files for Shockwave playback. The first large-scale multimedia site to use Shockwave was Intel's 25th Anniversary of the Microprocessor. Shockwave 5 Afterburner is integrated into the Director 5.0 authoring tool as an Xtra. Shockwave 6 Added support for Shockwave Audio (swa) which consisted of the emerging MP3 file format with some additional headers. Shockwave 7 Added support for linked media including images and casts. Added support for Shockwave Multiuser Server.
Shockwave 8.5 Added support for Intel's 3D technologies including rendering. Shockwave 9 Shockwave 10 Last version to support and lower,. Shockwave 11 Added support for. Shockwave 12 Shockwave 12.1 It is supported by 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8. It has content made from previous versions as well as Director MX 2004. From version 12.1.5.155 Shockwave is supported in both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Platform support Shockwave was available as a plug-in for the, and 32 bit for most of its history.
However, there was a notable break in support for the between January 2006 (when released based on the ) and March 2008 (when Adobe Systems released Shockwave 11, the first version to run natively on Intel Macs). Unlike Flash Player, Shockwave Player is not available for or despite intense lobbying efforts. However, the Shockwave Player can be installed on Linux with (or by running a Windows version of a supported browser in with varying degrees of success).
It is also possible to use Shockwave Player in the native Linux version of by using the plugin( which is based on a modified version of Wine). Security Some security experts advise users to uninstall Adobe Shockwave Player because 'it bundles a component of Adobe Flash that is more than 15 months behind on security updates, and which can be used to backdoor virtually any computer running it', in the words of.
This opinion is based on research by Will Dormann, who goes on to say that Shockwave is architecturally flawed because it contains a separate version of the Flash runtime that is updated much less often than Flash itself. Additionally Krebs writes that 'Shockwave has several modules that don’t opt in to trivial exploit mitigation techniques built into Microsoft Windows, such as.'
Branding and name confusion In an attempt to raise its brand profile, all Macromedia players prefixed Shockwave to their names in the late 1990s. Although this campaign was successful and helped establish as a multimedia pluginShockwave and became more difficult to maintain as separate products. In 2005, Macromedia marketed three distinct browser player under the brand names, Macromedia Shockwave,. Macromedia also released a web browser plug-in for viewing files online. It was branded Macromedia Shockwave for FreeHand and displayed specially compressed.fhc Freehand files. Later, with the acquisition of, Adobe Systems slowly began to all products related to Shockwave. See also.
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