title: What is Adobe Flex? Is it just Flash II?
body: <h2>Question</h2>
  
  <p>Alright, I'm confused by all the buzzwords and press release bingo going on.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>What is the relationship between flash and flex:
  
  <ul>
  <li>Replace flash (not really compatible)</li>
  <li>Enhance flash</li>
  <li>The next version of flash but still basically compatible</li>
  <li>Separate technology altogether</li>
  <li>???</li>
  </ul></li>
  <li>If I'm starting out in Flash now, should I just skip to Flex?</li>
  </ul>
  
  <h2>Follow up</h2>
  
  <p>Ok, so what I'm hearing is that there's three different parts to the puzzle:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><strong>Flash</strong>
  
  <ul>
  <li>The graphical editor used to make "Flash Movies", ie it's an IDE that focuses on the visual aspect of "Flash"  (Officially Flash CS3?)</li>
  <li>The official name for the display plugins (ie, "Download Flash Now!")</li>
  <li>A general reference to the entire technology stack</li>
  <li>In terms of the editor, it's a linear timeline based editor, best used for animations with complex interactivity.</li>
  </ul></li>
  <li><strong>Actionscript</strong>
  
  <ul>
  <li>The "Flash" programming language</li>
  </ul></li>
  <li><strong>Flex</strong>
  
  <ul>
  <li>An Adobe Flash IDE that focuses on the coding/programming aspect of "Flash" (Flex Builder?)</li>
  <li>A Flash library that enhances Flash and makes it easier to <em>program</em> for (Flex SDK?)</li>
  <li>Is not bound to a timeline (as the Flash IDE is) and so "standard" applications are more easily accomplished.</li>
  </ul></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Is this correct?</p>
  
  <p>-Adam</p>