Telerik Kendo UI MVC Extensions and Icky HTML
I like clean code. Remember the days of obtrusive JavaScript?
Yuck.
Move that click
event to a handler attached via JavaScript and that makes for much nicer HTML.
There are other annoyances that I encounter in HTML code beyond obtrusive JavaScript, one that gets to me is <script>
tags all over the rendered HTML. Well, that’s exactly what happens when using the Kendo UI MVC Extensions! For example:
Icky HTML in my opinion. Ok, I’m nitpicking, but here’s one annoyance with this approach. I MUST declare jQuery and the Kendo UI JavaScript at the top of the page. I like my scripts to be nice and tidy at the bottom of the page, like a responsible web designer.
My recommendation for using Kendo UI would be to use it without the MVC helpers. Personally I love JavaScript; I don’t need no stinkin’ helpers :)
UPDATE: It looks like a “DeferredScripts” solution is coming in the Q1 2013 release of the Kendo UI, so this may soon be a moot point.