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  • Web

    Kendo UI Templates: Faster than a speeding Resig

    One of the key components included in Kendo UI is a very high-performance JavaScript "micro-templating" implementation. Almost every JavaScript front-end development project needs templating, so consistent with Kendo UI's goal of providing everything you need for JavaScript development in a seamless, compact package, we've included a...
    August 26, 2011 6 min read
  • Web

    Shields Up! Web Service abstraction with Kendo UI

    When we last looked at the Kendo UI Data Source, we discovered that it could help simplify the process of talking to OData web service end points. By simply setting the "type" property to "odata," the Kendo UI data source automatically handles the nuances of talking...
    August 26, 2011 5 min read
  • Web jQuery

    Cross-Domain Queries to OData Services with jQuery

    As more application code moves from the server to the client, it's increasingly common to use JavaScript to load JSON data that lives on a different domain. Traditionally, this cross-domain (or more accurately, cross-origin) querying is blocked by browser security, but there is a popular technique...
    August 24, 2011 7 min read
  • Web

    Supporting a Dinosaur: Time to end IE6 support?

    Like it or not (and, frankly, I’m not sure who likes it), IE6 is not yet 100% dead. Try as is it might, the web developer community and even Microsoft have failed to put this ancient, broken browser in the dust bin more than 10 years after its...
    August 12, 2011 3 min read
  • Web

    5 Benefits of Developing JavaScript Sites & Apps

    Now that the first Kendo UI beta is out, we’re starting to get tons of great feedback. One the common observations in early feedback is that many people are still struggling to fully understand why you would want to migrate towards JavaScript development instead of using traditional...
    August 09, 2011 6 min read