时下多媒体程序员大多采用Authorware或Director开发多媒体应用程序,虽然这两种开发工具都支持网上发布,但都需要在服务器端作相关Shockwave的设置和在用户浏览器上安装Shockwave插件,因而显得稍有不便。自从Macromedia公司推出网页开发工具Dreamweaver及其后来的Attain Objects,给多媒体程序员开发网页带来了福音,这是因为Dreamweaver with Attain Objects在界面风格和功能使用上与Authorware Nowadays, most multimedia programmers use Authorware or Director to develop multimedia applications. Although both development tools support online publishing, they all need to set the related Shockwave settings on the server side and install the Shockwave plug-in on the user’s browser, thus resulting in a slight inconvenient. Since Macromedia’s Web development tool Dreamweaver and later Attain Objects has brought great benefits to multimedia programmers in developing Web pages, Dreamweaver with Attain Objects has been used with Authorware in interface style and features