When a user views a web page that includes a Shockwave movie, the data from the movie begins downloading. Shockwave decompresses the data and plays the movie in the user's web browser. Cast members are a Director movie's basic elements. Cast members include bitmap images, text, sounds, buttons, digital videos, and more. Cast members are organized into casts.
Sprites are objects representing when, where, and how cast members appear in the movie.
By creating multiple sprites, a single cast member can appear in different places and times in a movie. Code modules are created in the programming language Director Lingo. These modules call into play and alter the behavior of different sprites and cast members in response to user behavior. To make sure a movie plays on as many compatible browsers as possible, we will use both tags. The HTML statement that follows runs a movie from both Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.