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Re:Ask HN: Why not Flex? by coderdude on Thursday September 03, 2009 @11:35PM (#804223)
>>>>It's not easily indexable by search engines. >>Neither is AJAX content.

You typically wouldn't load your entire layout via Ajax.

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Re:Ask HN: Why not Flex? by moe on Friday September 04, 2009 @08:29AM (#804684)
You typically wouldn't load your entire layout via Ajax.

Depends on the application. Flex doesn't compete with your average listing-based HTML webapp. It's competing with GWT and Ext in the field of complex, desktop-like GUIs ("RIA").

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