"To answer the question more directly however, WPF or any desktop stack is only a stop gap till web apps are more capable. It's definately on a downword trend."

"To answer the question more directly however, WPF or any desktop stack is only a stop gap till web apps are more capable. It's definately on a downword trend." The web will always be playing catch up to native desktop/mobile apps. And when web apps catch up to the desktop, there will be something else new that web apps can't do that desktop apps can better. (It might take 7 yrs to catch up -- like being able to play DOOM on the web).