KendoUI Web - Layout

[Igor]

Hi,

I have been using KendoUI in several mini pet-projects and it has been a great pleasure. The time has come for me to convince the rest of the team to use KendoUI in our flagship product.

I really like the KendoUI Mobile Layout and would like to know if there is similar functionality in KendoUI Web. What is your approach in organizing layout for larger web applications? Should we use KendoUI Mobile Layout even if our application is not intended for use on mobile devices? Can similar functionality be accomplished using KendoUI Templates?

Thanks,

Igor

[Sebastian]

Hello Igor,

The Kendo UI Web widgets are touch enabled and support mobile devices, however they do not feature adaptive rendering on different mobile platforms or automatic mobile-optimized view, if that's what you have in mind.

Can you please elaborate a bit more on what exactly you would like to accomplish with the Web widgets, in terms of layout? Since you are saying your application will not be intended to be used on mobile devices, should I assume that it will target desktops only? If so, you can define its layout using Kendo UI Templates (as you found out) as well as standard html and css techniques.

Kind regards,
Sebastian
the Telerik team

[Igor]

Hi Sebastian,

need to accomplish something like "master pages" in ASP.NET that define the layout of the web application (header, footer, menu etc) but would like to avoid using third party frameworks, plugins and libraries.

[Sebastian]

Hello again Igor,

Thank you for the clarification.

A possible solution for you might be to speficy your application header, footer, etc. via Kendo UI Template definitions and reuse those templates across different pages. Thus you can 'simulate' the concept of master pages in ASP.NET. I hope this is applicable for your case.

Regards,
Sebastian
the Telerik team