Just last week MooTools added support for SWF with MooTools Swiff. Yahoo recently baked in Flash Charting into YUI which is pretty cool and a lot easier than trying to use something like SVG in the browser to achieve this.
Of course Adobe released the Flex Ajax Bridge a couple years to give a step up on plain old ExternalInterface for communicating between JavaScript and Action Script. Dave Johnson and Alexei White built a pretty cool dashboard demo with Flex Charting and the Nitobi Ajax Grid tied together with the FA Bridge a couple years ago to achieve the same thing as the YUI Charts. What's strange is there hasn't been more action here, the Flex Charting component is pretty kick ass and could be dropped into a lot of Ajax projects if it were just a bit friendlier for HTML/JavaScript folks similar to the Adobe Flash-Ajax Video component. SlideShare, YouTube for PowerPoint if you will, does a really cool Flash uploader implementation.
There are so many interesting things we can do with Ajax and Flash together such as: graphics, file upload, sound, push (sockets), offline web apps (local data objects) and video to name a few. We have much more to gain by mixing these technologies rather than debating which one is better.
Does anyone have any other really cool Ajax and Flash/Flex hybrid UIs?
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Nate
YUI Team, Yahoo! Inc.
flXHR (flex-er) http://flxhr.flensed.com/
flXHR creates a completely API compatible drop-in replacement for the native XHR object, but powered with an automatically created and controlled invisible flash .swf, and leveraging Adobe's cross-domain security model with server opt-in control.
This makes flXHR drop-dead easy (~3 lines of simple code) to adapt into any of the major JS frameworks (Dojo, Prototype, jQuery, etc) so a website doesn't have to change any code at all but can automatically get functionality like secure cross-domain communication with flXHR.
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