As suggested here - http://kendo.uservoice.com/forums/127393-kendo-ui-feedback/suggestions/2522564-server-rendering-for-templates I plan on rendering javascript on the server for a single unified binding codebase.  Except, I plan on implementing my own rendering engine and have no need for you to do that for me.

However, kendo needs to bind everything and enumerate the DOM such as my question here - http://www.kendoui.com/forums/ui/dropdownlist/dropdownlist-autobinding-dom.aspx.  For Kendo to be used on the server side it has to (optionally) render things like dropdown lists, grids, etc completely and control visibility based on CSS rather than partially rendering the DOM (understandably for DOM performance).  ie. disable virtualization option for all controls.

Make sure that Kendo works with server-side rendering for SEO purposes otherwise it's useless for my intended use.

This feature is necessary for server-side rendering with - http://kendo.uservoice.com/forums/127393-kendo-ui-feedback/suggestions/2678704-single-page-application-spa- in combination with https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/.