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Kendo UI is out of beta

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Re: Kendo UI is out of beta

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Just wondering why you would pick this over say jquery-ui or a combination of free and open source solutions?

It's made by Telerik, maker of .NET libraries and tools, and some companies go "all in" on their stuff.

I use highcharts at work, and quite happy with it. This seems to have much less options than highcharts.

Is there any place where we can compare the various charting libraries?

Re: Kendo UI is out of beta

#22

Just wondering why you would pick this over say jquery-ui or a combination of free and open source solutions?

Having played with it; and after recently building an app using "jquery-ui or a combination of free and open source solutions" I'd say... because it's actually very good by comparison :)

For an ISV, $399 is next to nothing.

Re: Kendo UI is out of beta

#23

As someone who does JavaScript and HTML5 UIs for a living, I'm interested to understand more about the market of customers who pay for UI components or libraries. Can anyone comment point me to an successful MVP in this area or tell me about customers who buy this stuff?

Several of our clients, big consulting firms for the gov heavily use these and have no qualms about picking them up.

Re: Kendo UI is out of beta

#25

Just wondering why you would pick this over say jquery-ui or a combination of free and open source solutions?

This is way slicker than what you could build using jquery-ui and available plugins unless you are rockstar with the js and have an excellent design person. For instance, the best time-picker plugin I've been able to find for jquery-ui is nice but isn't perfectly cross-browser and not as pretty: http://labs.perifer.se/timedatepicker/

Now look at the Kendo time picker. Design and usability are crucial to a successful product, so I'd say this looks like a smart investment, although I'd have to tinker with it more before buying.

Re: Kendo UI is out of beta

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Anyone has idea what this line might mean: "Your Trial Support Package is active for 60 days after download."

A 60-day trial -- you can ask questions in the support forum and evaluate whether you want to purchase a commercial license.

Re: Kendo UI is out of beta

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I found this to be quite helpful: Kendo UI Web is a framework for modern HTML UI. Engineered with the latest HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript standards, it delivers everything needed for client-side, jQuery-powered development in one integrated, compact package.

I believe that the parent is referring to the link that the OP submitted. If so, the parent is correct. The link submitted doesn't state much at all, other than purchasing options. The OP should have submitted the actual homepage, the page that contains the information that you provided.

As a rule of thumb I search for "About" link on any website if I don't get the whole thing. Isn't it quite straightforward?

Re: Kendo UI is out of beta

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Anyone has idea what this line might mean: "Your Trial Support Package is active for 60 days after download."

A 60-day trial -- you can ask questions in the support forum and evaluate whether you want to purchase a commercial license.

Thanks, I thought part of the script depends on some other script on their server.

Re: Kendo UI is out of beta

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Under GPL3, if you make KendoUI components available via hosted solution, I think you'd have to release your app's entire source. I think GPL3/commercial dual licensing is a very unattractive licensing approach, but that's just my view. CORRECTION: My comment is only true under the Affero GPL.

If you use GPL3 licensed software in the backend, you wouldn't have to release the entire source, as long as you don't distribute the software. Which is why AGPL was created. But something like HTML UI components can't really be used without being used over the network, so not sure if it makes any difference here. Anybody know better? Edit: I see that DanielRibeiro has an answer about mobile apps. "The GNU Affero Gen…

You are correct. I was forgetting the distinction between GPL3 and AGPL3.

Re: Kendo UI is out of beta

#30

As someone who does JavaScript and HTML5 UIs for a living, I'm interested to understand more about the market of customers who pay for UI components or libraries. Can anyone comment point me to an successful MVP in this area or tell me about customers who buy this stuff?

Generally the same people who buy Windows Server, businesses and governments. ExtJS is reasonably popular, probably the best example I can think of here (but I'm not in the market).

http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/

Having quality support available is probably alone worth several times the price.

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