The survey would be useful for multimedia developers and interactive media designers interested in gaining a broad knowledge of multimedia application design.  ...  This thesis presents a survey of multimedia application development and a case study of an implementation of a multimedia application.  ...  A component-based approach is optimal for logically separating the hardware-and software-dependent portions of the application and allowing the application programmer to redesign and/or rewrite out-of-date  ... 

Many thanks to Damien Riunaud for spending hours scanning mountains, to GianVittorio Frigo for valuable consultancy on Photoshop, and to Chris Jones and David Williams for the enthusiastic support to this  ...  Acknowledgements Some of the material in these lectures is based on the Acknowledgements Special thanks to Mario Ruggier, co designer of WebMaker, for his suggestions and his detailed reviews of the  ...  Figure 8 shows the dataflow for the HIPE WWW gateway. The Elementary Process reads the hardware and stores the information in shared memory.  ...