I am a flash expert and have played with Flex as well. I've seen Thermo demo'd at MAX, and I look forward to seeing it help bridge the gaps in real world workflows between Photoshoppers, Illustrators and Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flexers.
The declaritive aspect of Flex can be faster than Flex for developing applications, especially in teams. That said historically, it's a complex beast, as there are two areas of of complexity 1) mastering the rather deep libraries 2) running into their limitations, which are only revealled when you're standing on top of them with 90% of your application built. This is true for Flash as well, historically 80% of my programming can take 20% of the time some other traditional languages take if you measure total cost of development (cross browser compatibility being the achilles heel for html), but that 5-20% of feature can end up taking 80% of the time when you hit one of those walls, because the libraries aren't built in a way to make some features possible. Another major issue for Flex until recently is the sheer size, 200KB--1.2MB for the adobe framework to load. Thankfully Adobe is trying to address some of these. To be fair developing RIA's is an order of magnitude more complex than page by page html applications, but on par with AJAX applications, and consulting agencies recognize that risk...and of course tend to charge as much as they can. I have gotten far better experiences out of using Flash and Flex than AJAX/HTML when projects are setup appropriately, but perhaps like you I am also keenly aware of what needs to be done, the limitations and am not looking to geek out on implementation, or charge as much as possible as I'm in house. Troy. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
