I'm amazed, no "shocked!" that you would accept
the Shockwave plugin by Macromedia as a quality
plugin, while at the same time trash a great
plugin that deserves much more attention than
you gave it (one stinking line!) Shockwave's
plugin is a gross, bloated turd of a program
that produces multimedia that takes minutes to
load on a 28.8, and DOESN'T EVEN STREAM. The mBed
plugin (which has never crashed my machine, nor
the
other machines that I've worked on) is an
*elegant* 100k plugin that allows
you to create many of the requisite multimedia
pieces (push buttons, survey forms, path
animation, and MUCH MUCH more) with a simple text
script, and it STREAMS. Starts playing
immediately. Loads quickly, references graphics
and audio stored in your web directory (or
elsewhere), will support realaudio, is all around
more egalitarian (you don't have to dish out 800
bucks for Director! Did you get yours off the
net, Luke?) It loads quicker than Java, and
allows people with little or no programming
experience to create their own multimedia with
relative ease. And, to top it all off, if you see
some mBedlet you like, you can read the source of
the program just by viewing the document source in
Netscape!
So, to all you viewers out there, don't listen to
Luke, and give mBed a look. Remember, however,
that it is a beta (I wouldn't bother with the
activeX control just yet), and it will improve
over the next few months. And, if you so desire,
you can check out a VERY under construction page
here.
mBed is the ONLY plugin that has allowed me to get
as far as I have with that page just referenced.
Java, Shockwave, neither of those options could
provide the quick loading times that I need to
pull off this idea.
Make sure you have the mBed plug-in and Netscape
beta 5 or 6 (which came out today.) And make sure
Javascript is enabled. And don't bother trying to
use Internet Explorer, MS' horrible browser.
I hope all works well for you, otherwise
this rant is a waste of time! :>
Adios,
sut
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