Hi Mark,
Regarding your questions:
#1: If I understood correctly your aim is to have the styling without building a widget.
In this case you should add the the km-listview and km-list classes to the ul element. Here is an example:
#2: Thank you for the feedback. My suggestion is to submit this as a feature request at
Kendo UI Feedback portal. In this way the other users will be able to evaluate and for this idea, if it turns out to be popular we will consider it for one of our future releases.
Regards,
Alexander Valchev
Telerik
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