Why not Flex?
RobKohr: Ajax is easy to use, and the dom is easy to manipulate using jquery. When yo create a site with plain html, it fits in perfectly with how the user expects the web to work.When you do this is flash, it is an application running in your browser. It is far from seemless, and is the equivalent of a java app. It is something that takes time to load, and when it finally does, it takes time for the user to get used to the new experience.The simple question is, when you come to a page that uses flex do you notice that flash is running. If so then why? Why isn't it completely transparent to the user? Why does it seem like an isolated little object on the page that has little interaction with what is going on around it.Perhaps I just don't like a company owning any type of represention on the web.Perhaps you knew all these answers though, and this whole post is a light form of flame bait. In which case I fell right into it by explaining the obvious down sides of flex.So the positives:
*Things move around and look pretty.