Flex to the rescue!

This evening at Max, Adobe presented their annual Sneak Peeks, which are demos of new technologies that they may or may not release in the future. Two of these new technologies pertain to Ajax. One is a tool set that is intended to help developers integrate pre-made Ajax components into their sites. The other is a hosted service that enables developers to quickly and easily compare the way that their pages will render in different browser/platform combinations. In other words, both of them help to compensate for some of Ajax’s more significant weaknesses.

The sweet irony here is that both of these technologies leverage Flex. That’s right - one day soon Ajax developers are likely to be using Flex applications to help them solve some of their more thorny development problems.