Best Practice : Creating Custom Renderer for Standard Component

I've been reading the docs and a few threads about Custom Renderers. The best practice seems to be to create a Custom Component where you need a Custom Renderer. Is this the case?
See [this post|http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=427&threadID=520422]
I've created several Custom Renderers to override the HTML provided by the Standard Components, however I can't see the benefit in also creating a Custom Component when the behaviour of the standard component is just fine.
Thanks,
Damian.

It all depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Generally speaking if all you need is for the user interface output to be changed then a renderer will work just fine. A new component is usually made in order to provide some fundamental change in server side functionality not related to the user interface. - Ponderator

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