Coldfusion 8 CFGRID Column Renderer Update

Well I got a reply from Adobe's Ashwin Mathew regarding custom renderers for Coldfusion 8 CFGRID tag and it reads:

Sorry, Gary, custom renderers are not available right now, but I will file an enhancement request on your behalf so we can get them in for CF9.

I am a little disappointed to hear this honestly.

It means that I will have to write my sample application as a hybrid of CF8 and EXT to get the look that I want, or perhaps I will just keep the implementation simple and just use what is currently available and perhaps later expand on it to include a fancier EXT Grid.