We should not lose functionality that the jquery dialog already supports. Keydown is an important aspect in many web apps and right now a user can click the escape button if entering in a bunch of data and it closes out the window.
This functionality is supported as long as you focus our window widget using the keyboard. You can test it on the following demo: http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/window/keyboard-navigation Update: I understand you need some additional customizations for this behavior. Reopened the item in order to follow the interest in your suggestion via the votes it receives.
I want to set the close on escape = 'false' so it does not close. If I click in the demo window and click escape it closes. closeOnEscape on the jquery dialog does not close it on false.
If I click on the kendo window I would assume that would be focus of the window. JQuery dialog this works as such. Why would I want to click Alt W before I click escape? The user is not going to do this?