Chapter 17. Multimedia

One of the things that has made the Web so popular is the fact that you can add graphics, sound, animations, and movies to your Web pages. While in the past the prohibitive size of such files limited their effectiveness, newer technologies—including streaming audio and video, Flash, and Shockwave—make pages with dynamic multimedia effects much more accessible to those of us who don’t have the latest, fastest Pentiums and G4s.