Flex/Flash wasn't made for REST

Well, it did take longer than others, but I finally got the message: Flash was not built with HTTP in mind. There are other issues flying around, but I think it all boils down to HTTP not being treated as first-class-citizen in the Flex/Flash environment.

I guess that the reason is a historical one: all remote connection protocols where proprietary, only in the last years Adobe opened itself a little bit (by releasing BlazeDS and open sourcing Flex). Now I think Adobe should go 2 steps further:

1. implement standards (e.g. using HTTP how it was meant to be used)
2. open source the whole stack

This is highly speculative, but perhaps the "Nay" to EcmaScript4 was due to the apparent closeness of the Flash ecosystem.

The saddest thing is that Flex is great! Real good default (looks nice out of the box), a real component model, just plain fun! Next stop: Dojo, I think ...