Silberbauer Says:

Adobe has released Flex 2, the app that’ll make doing rich internet applications a breeze.

It lets enterprises create personalized, multimedia-rich, Ajax-style applications that can reach virtually anyone on any platform.

…as Adobe says. Not Ajax-applications but Ajax-style applications. Because there certainly is a catch.

I was eager to see a demo on this revolution so I went to the Flex Store demo that is supposed to show how cool a web shop can be when made with Flex.

I was not impressed: In fact the shop (after loading for hours!) didn’t initialize. Just a empty window – both in IE and FF…

Oh my: I need Flash 9 to use an RIA produced in Flex 2. That kind of makes Flex a big no-no in my book. I could never recommend a client to build anything that requires his customers to install a proprietary plugin.

Seems to me that Flex 2 is Adobes way to try to take over the web by requiring everybody to install Flash 9.

Building your website in a tool that requires the user to install plugins at all is absolutely sheer madness. Just don’t do it.