jp roberts wrote:Will/can one use flex objects in a web page like one can use a dojo widget. Like just using a flex datagrid embedded on a web page and having the ability to communicate with it via javascript?
One thing about Flex is the size of the framework in the embedded swfs. It is rather large. However, Adobe provides the framework in signed runtime-shared-libraries (RSL) that are cached by the Flash Player. This means that if the visitor has already cached the RSLs then they don't need to retrieve the framework. It makes your SWFs acceptable in terms of size. As Dan says, communicating with the SWF via the ExternalInterface is really easy. The SWF object is a first-class JavaScript citizen. You can do some really cool things this way.