I know this has been pointed out countless times before, but how in the world did Vista ever make it out the door with the Sidebar not supporting WPF? HTML and javascript is the way to develop a supposedly cool Vista feature. Ohhhhh my.

I have to get into some gadget development to prototype some things for a customer, and after having experienced the goodness that is WPF, all I can say is "Some one should be shot". Stuff that would take a little smattering of XAML is utterly painful in HTML/javascript. Partly because I am a javascript hack, but also because it just feels so wrong when I am creating something for Vista.

I am sure it has something to do with some lame brain idea to have some kind of synergy between Live Gadgets and Vista Gadgets, but with the whole Live strategy seeming to be in utter disarray (or at least I have no clue what it is, and that says a whole lot right there), no WPF gadget support just seems ridiculous.

Ok... I will go crawl back under my rock now.