[ryantmulligan]

The hype is because you can possibly simplify rich websites by fitting your web content into the standardized widgets that Flex provides you, thus speeding up development a lot.

[danw]

I think flex will be the perfect platform for mobile devices where the offline/online is needed more.

[woot]

Not really. Basically Flex is swf itself. ie., flash content. Currently Flash content is playable on devices that come with Flash Lite player from Adobe. As of now,in Flash Lite,data can be temporarily stored on devices using shared objects.

[russ]

Not to mention Flex/Flash's ability to scale to screen size is much more flexible than laying out pages via XHTML/CSS