Kendo UI is everything you need to build sites and apps with HTML5 & JavaScript & Kendo UI Core is the free and open-source version of Kendo UI that provides access to the web's best UI widgets and key framework features essential for developing great experiences for the web and mobile.
Kendo UI Core is a free and open-source distribution of Kendo UI. The following table details the widgets and features available in Kendo UI Core, as well as the additional features available via a commercial Kendo UI license.
Feature | Core | Complete | UI for MVC/JSP/PHP |
---|---|---|---|
Framework | |||
DataSource | Yes | Yes | Yes |
MVVM | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SPA | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Effects | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Drag & Drop | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Validator | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Widgets | |||
AutoComplete | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Calendar | Yes | Yes | Yes |
ComboBox | Yes | Yes | Yes |
DatePicker | Yes | Yes | Yes |
DateTimePicker | Yes | Yes | Yes |
DropDownList | Yes | Yes | Yes |
ListView | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Menu | Yes | Yes | Yes |
NumericTextBox | Yes | Yes | Yes |
PanelBar | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Slider | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Splitter | Yes | Yes | Yes |
TabStrip | Yes | Yes | Yes |
TimePicker | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Tooltip | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Window | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Sortable | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Progress | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Button | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Color Picker | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Toolbar | Yes | Yes | Yes |
MultiSelect | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Mask Input | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Notification | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Editor | No | Yes | Yes |
Grid | No | Yes | Yes |
Scheduler | No | Yes | Yes |
TreeView | No | Yes | Yes |
Upload | No | Yes | Yes |
Data Viz | |||
Charts | No | Yes | Yes |
Gauges | No | Yes | Yes |
QR Code | No | Yes | Yes |
Bar Code | No | Yes | Yes |
Mobile | |||
Mobile Widgets | No | Yes | Yes |
Mobile Framework Features | No | Yes | Yes |
Official Support | No | Yes | Yes |
Kendo UI Core depends on the following libraries:
- jQuery v[VERSION HERE]
Kendo UI Core has not been tested against any other versions of these libraries. You may find that versions other than these are compatible with Kendo Ui Core, but we make no claims to support those version, nor can we troubleshoot issues that arise when using those versions.
LINK TO ZIP DISTRIBUTION OF KENDO UI CORE HOSTED AT TELERIK.COM
You can also easily include Kendo UI Core into your site or application using the Kendo CDN:
<link href="http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2014.1.416/styles/kendo.common.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2014.1.416/styles/kendo.default.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<script src="http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2014.1.416/js/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2014.1.416/js/kendo.ui.core.min.js"></script>
The main advantage to this is that your users may be able to leverage a primed cache version of Kendo UI Core if they've visited other sites using the framework.
For complete Kendo UI Documentation, including Kendo UI Core, please visit http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui.
Kendo UI Core is free and open-source. We encourage and support an active, healthy community that accepts contributions from the public. We'd like you to be a part of that community.
Before contributing to Kendo UI Core, please:
- Read and sign the Kendo UI Core Contribution License Agreement, to confirm you've read and acknowledged the legal aspects of your contributions, and
- Read our contribution guide, which houses all of the necessary info to:
- submit bugs,
- request new features, and
- walk you through the entire process of preparing your code for a Pull Request.
As a fully-open source project, Kendo UI Core is a primarially community-supported project, As such, you are encouraged to use forums like Stack Overflow to post questions, and the issues list of this repo to report bugs.
The Kendo UI team does not provide formal support for Kendo UI Core, except to those customers who have purchased a commercial license for Kendo UI (Complete, UI for MVC, etc.) or a support-only package from Telerik.com. Please do not create support requests for this project in the issues list for this repo, as these will be immediately closed and you'll be directed to post your question on a community forum.
For change logs and release notes, see the changelog file. (TODO: What's the link to the Core changelog?)
This project has been released under the Apache License, version 2.0, the text of which is included below. This license applies ONLY to the source of this repository and does not extend to any other Kendo UI distribution or variant, or any other 3rd party libraries used in a repository. For licensing information about Kendo UI, see the License Agreements page at KendoUI.com.
Copyright © 2014 Telerik
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