Differences between WPF and *Silverlight Rendering Stacks

(*Desktop Silverlight for Windows)There haven’t been too many articles written about the rendering subsystems of WPF and Silverlight, at least not in great detail. This leaves room for quite a bit of speculation and leads to some turf war augments between some Silverlight and WPF developers. I want to document (brain barf) at least what I have gathered from qualified sources, observations,