Universal Binary Shockwave for Mac? Is Director on itsway out?

[Grant Hutchins]

Anyone have any thoughts about if and when there will be a universal binary
version of shockwave for the Mac?

Also, Director seems to receive very little attention from Adobe. Anyone know
anything or care to speculate about Adobe's commitment to maintaining Director.
I'm guessing that adobe will eventually ad 3D capabilities to Flash and do away
with Director. My company use to do a lot with Director, now we have a scant
few clients who bring us work that requires it.

As the Art Director for my company I have had a somewhat passive role with
Director, creating art and presentations that only require basic navigation and
animation and handing off to a true programmer when more complex functionality
is needed. Our programmer has left and it seems on some level I am now assuming
the role of main director person, at least unofficially. I also have a beginner
to intermediate level of proficiency with Flash. I'm pretty much left to teach
myself what ever programming our clients need as it is needed. My plate is full
and I'm trying to determine if I need to invest time in really learning lingo
beyond my rudimentary working knowledge, or just concentrate on expanding my
Flash knowledge base. If Flash did 3D, I would probably forget about Director
because it seems like it is on it's way out and most of the things our clients
need I think can be done in Flash although for standalone presentations, I
prefer the seamless flow of Director to the "wait to load" result of Flash.

Any thoughts on this?

[Karl Sigiscar]

As Adobe says itself:
A new version of Director will be released in the first half of 2007. It
will be sold under the name Adobe Director. No features list available yet.

That's the only information we have and you'll have to live with it until
the release (or beta program just before).

Adobe doesn't have anything else in its product range that comes close to
Director and Shockwave. Shockwave 3D is still to this day the most reliable
Web 3D plugin available (even if it has not the best rendering quality but
sufficient for games, e-learning and 3D product assembly instructions).
Adding 3D to Flash Player would mean a heavier download (Flash Player 9 is
already 1 MB without the Yahoo toolbar).

The other news it that Tom Higgins, the Director Technical Product Manager
left. I believe his position has already been filled internally by someone
else at Adobe (it's a huge company) or will be soon (haven't seen any job
offer yet for this role).

Best regards,
Karl Sigiscar.

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[Grant Hutchins]

Karl Sigiscar,

Great info! Much appreciated,

Grant