>I've developed a series of CDs on Public Health using Director 7 ... the
>client now wants them to go on their website as well ... what are the
>pros and cons of using RealMedia, Shockwave, or Flash?
Since you have already done it in Director, the straightest route would
probably be Shockwave.
You are likely to run into some security and bandwidth issues with
Shockwave that you don't have with a CD-based presentation. Video and audio
will load more slowly--you may need to write some code to stream them
instead of just playing them directly.
On the security side, you have very limited access to the user's hard drive
in Shockwave, and limited access to his system--you can't reset the color
depth, for example. Also, MIAWs don't work in Shockwave.
A more general answer re Shock vs. Flash: Flash is generally faster to load
and play, but it doesn't have the power and flexibility of
Shockwave--ActionScript is much more limited than Lingo. On the other hand,
the plug-in download is lighter for Flash, and more people have the Flash
plug-in than Shockwave.
HTH
Cordially,
Kerry Thompson
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