Please excuse me for the misleading information. The Kendo MVVM has a readonly binding, but it works only for native HTML elements. The widget bindings, does not support readonly binding. Here is a simple jsBin demo which shows how to use readonly binding.
Kind regards,
Georgi Krustev
the Telerik team
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