The DropDown widget offers a simple and lightweight drop-down list of items for single selection. It brings a user-friendly experience for the end user, with enhanced mobile and keyboard support, server and client templates, rich client-side API with a comprehensive set of events. The control also introduces a new load on demand mechanism, called Virtual Scrolling, which improves the performance and usability in scenarios with large amounts of data.
By using the DropDown widget, you will inherit standard Kendo UI framework benefits such as MVVM, Customizing Templates, RTL support, Globalization and Keyboard navigation