The BBC F1 site includes a 3D Flash fly around of any track

OK we have a treat for all of the Techies out there. We realise that you might not get excited by Twitter or Monetised Video but we’ve been assured that an article on Flash/Actionscript might get you to take an interest. It’s interesting stuff, especially when you follow some of the links and see what companies are doing with it. Techie or not, we think you’ll be impressed.

Flash/Actionscript is going through its 3^rd major evolution, which is reflected in the way we see it being used:

1.  Early flash versions (with ActionScript 1) were primarily used to plug a gap in HTML/javascript to allow interactive graphics/games to be distributed on websites.  For the most part the output was simplistic because the toolset and language limitations made anything else very time intensive (and therefore costly) to achieve.

It also provided impossible challenges such as accessibility.

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