Okay, so Jack Slocum over at EXTJS has put together a very cool example on how to develop new Vista sidebar gadgets using the ExtJS Framework – opening up a huge realm of posibilities for developing advanced sidebar gadgets *without* ending up looking like so many of the tacky ones released on Windows Live. Take a look at this entry from Jack’s Blog:

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A while back in the Ext forums I mentioned a Forum Gadget I was working on for Windows Vista created with Ext 2.0. The gadget gives the ability to monitor the Ext JS forums (all posts or by individual forum), perform fast searches and supports both docked and undocked mode.