The problem with animated GIFs is that they can quite large for complex animations because each frame of the animations is completely separate image. In contrast, Macromedia’s Shockwave Flash animations don’t take nearly as long to download. Instead of storing an image for each frame, they record information about each moving object and its speed and direction. That information is far more compact than a full image, but does require special software, call Shockwave Flash. For users of the Windows version of Internet Explorer, Macromedia has implemented Shockwave Flash using ActiveX so it will install automatically when you visit the appropriate web page, whereas on the Macintosh, it’s plug-in file that must be downloaded and placed in your Plug-in folder inside the Internet Explorer folder.
Shockwave Flash animations have become quite popular because of their small size and fact that they can stream, which means they start playing as soon as they’ve started downloading. Animations that don’t stream must download fully before they can start playing. You can learn more about Macromedia Flash technology and download the free Shockwave Flash player from
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The web shook up the text-based world of the Internet when it first appeared because web pages can display text in different fonts along with graphics on the same page. That hadn't been possible before, and was a major step for the Internet.
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There are serveral browsers that can be use to view the Multimedia contents on the Internet. Most of them are compatible with the most of the multimedia on the Webpages, such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Netscape Navigator
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