I have reasonable experience with PHP, CSS, and javascript/jquery/ajax. I'm taking my first steps learning Flex/Flash/Actionscript and it's already striking me that using flash/SWF could solve many of my problems. For example:
I won't have to worry much about javascript availability e.g. handling the form submit twice like I do now, once for js available and one for js not available.
There's also a CSS advantage: looks like things are very easy to style and drop in their correct exact spot in flash than it is with CSS (I hate CSS because I'm not that great at it and it usually gives me a headache).
I know that all-flash websites are very very bad, so I'm not planning to use Flash for everything, maybe for things that are not important like menus, registration forms, something that displays data that doesn't need to be indexed. For those who are like me (not flash loyalists), what parts of your webapp do you prefer to use flash for and think it does it better or in less time or without headache than CSS/javascript/ajax on a PHP backend? Is my thinking correct to begin with?
