On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 10:25 pm, RichardA wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:39:02 +0100
>
> Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 6:01 pm, RichardA wrote:
> > > On 12 Jun 2003 15:44:04 +0200
> > >
> > > Steven Broos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 15:00, RichardA wrote:
> > >
> > > Aren't shockwave and flash almost the same thing? The
> > > about:plugins page on my Help menu (Galeon 1.2.5) says
> > > "Shockwave Flash" from libflashplayer.so
> > >
> > > Richard
> >
> > Not sure - is there Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash?  I'm
> > sure that I was reading a changelog recently that said something
> > about removing one of these and replacing it with the other.
> >
> > Not much help, other than it suggests that there may be an
> > incompatibility problem if a developer found the need to change.
> >
> > Anne
>
> I don't know. I can do java, flash, shockwave, whatever, but the
> Epson URL mentioned earlier doesn't work for me.
>
> Richard

I see it says x-director.  I googled, and came up with this somewhat 
outdated quote

> After enabling plugins in opera and going to the test
> page
> http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/welcome/
> I've found the only "half" of the Flash plugin works.
> Flash Player is ok (the bottom test), but Shockwave
> Flash is not ok (the top test).

which suggests that there are in fact two versions.  If you want to 
read the whole post and reply, it is at

http://list.opera.com/pipermail/opera-linux/2001-October/001235.html

Anne

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