Add Server-side rendering engines for templates.  I would love them in .Net first and then php and then Ruby.  Having server side is huge for SEO and with a rendering engine could basically take a huge chunk of server code out of the mix and just replace with templates.

Hi, I have noticed your planned development of a listview widget, if the listview and templates are to be synonymous; it might be worth your while to look at the unobtrusive pure approach. http://beebole.com/pure/  

The template is not so friendly with document db such as MongoDB. Data in MongoDB are schema free, it means some data fields may be missing. It may lead to an error while rendering templates. jQuery's API can have a optional arg to provide default value, but I don't how to do it in Kendo.

Hi,

We're building a large JS app that uses jQuery templates. When the number of templates got out of hand, I moved it to another HTML page, and did a $.get("templates.html") and appended that to the DOM.

We load each template one by one. We wanted to do parallel loading using something similar to head.js

Maybe you guys can come up with a way of doing it neater. Maybe something like this:

kendo.templates.remote = ['templates1.html', 'templates2.html'];
kendo.ready(function(){ //kick ass! });