Hello,

I very much appreciate the effort put into kendoUI, and the widgets look pretty good.  I just have one major issue with how the methods can be called upon as they have an enourmous impact on our code since object chaining and the great advantages jQuery offers with object chaining is simply being thrown away because of the way you force us to use the .data() method to get the kendoUI object.

Following the guidelines on http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Authoring, we should be able to do the following:

$('div.grid').kendoGrid(); // Initilises the grid
$('div.grid').kendoGrid('refresh'); // calls the refresh method on the grid

this should always return the jquery object which enables object chaining, so we might do the following:

$('div.grid').kendoGrid('refresh').show();

Unfortunately, the above example using KendoUI would need to be translated into:

$('div.grid').data("kendoGrid").refresh();

because the .data() method obviously does not return a jQuery object, and the refresh() method doesn't either, we can no longer benefit from chaining, and need to reselect the object to execute the show() method:

$('div.grid').show();

This obviously does make things more complicated, and will cause for more code.

I sincerely believe this needs to be addressed.  A forum topic on this is available at http://www.kendoui.com/forums/ui/general-discussions/why-aren-t-widget-methods-just-added-through-object-extention.aspx#2040399

Rather than working on you own MVVM implementation you should provide support for full KnockoutJS as other vendors like Infragistics & ComponentOne have done. Very few of us would want to get tied with your MVVM implementation which would make moving to other controls in future difficult.

With lack of documentation working with your controls is a nightmare.

In widget "menu" option "direction" would be handy.
So you can easily insert the menu under a component and to develop to the top.
Would be nice to be able to place the menu on the right or left.

I need to be able to filter grid items similar to how it is done in the ASP.NET AJAX controls where you can setup filtering for each column. I have made the Telerik ASP.NET Ajax Grid control to be 100% client side with virtual paging / filtering using Linq filtering on the client to server ajax calls. The Kendo Grid I think is almost there. I just need to be able to do filtering and then I think I will have the functionality that I have now.

It will be great if the Chart Label has hyperlink facility....

It would be very useful feature to Enable / Disable Panelbar Item

Save the state in partial postback

it would be nice to be able to user-resize the columns with the mouse (like in jQuery-Grid Add-On).

Make the download more robust and simple

I'd like to be able to... 
- toggle columns on and offer
- filter the content (eg, show only the rows where the Size column is "Medium")
- re-arrange the columns into a different order
- resize the width of columns

Neither I nor anyone at my company can get it to work. We get a link in a email and the page fails to load at all. That means that I can't get a demo version of the project, I can't post in your forums, and I can't contact technical support. And you don't have a phone number on your site, so I can't contact you that way. If the only way of getting to you is via registration then you really need to make it work properly.

Kendo UI for mobile, should provide a default look for NON mobile device. 

The vertical scrollbar is visible in Firefox but not Chrome, but only when using virtual scrolling. For Chrome users, it's impossible to see that there is more data available like this... See e.g. here: http://demos.kendoui.com/web/grid/virtualization-local-data.html

Adding a "select" when user choose one of the hint in AutoComplete to help field-linking.  More detail and implementation about the idea in here: http://www.kendoui.com/forums/ui/autocomplete/suggestion-about-select-event.aspx

The keyboard navigation does not work on grid. Please see the sample "Editing Custom Editor". In the previous version you can edit one cell, hit enter or tab key and then move to the next cell o using the arrow keys, move the next row. Thanks for creating this amazing tool.

Support the same grid footer templating as in asp.net ajax with the same default options for recordcount, pagechange slider etc. 

Grid on grouping show count of the grouped items in the group header. Its a pretty known functionality.

To make it easier to add Kendo UI to a project, create a Ruby Gem package.

View/edit source option to edit raw html inside the editor.