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Just wondering why you would pick this over say jquery-ui or a combination of free and open source solutions?

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It's made by Telerik, maker of .NET libraries and tools, and some companies go "all in" on their stuff.

I use highcharts at work, and quite happy with it. This seems to have much less options than highcharts.

Is there any place where we can compare the various charting libraries?

This is way slicker than what you could build using jquery-ui and available plugins unless you are rockstar with the js and have an excellent design person. For instance, the best time-picker plugin I've been able to find for jquery-ui is nice but isn't perfectly cross-browser and not as pretty: http://labs.perifer.se/timedatepicker/

Now look at the Kendo time picker. Design and usability are crucial to a successful product, so I'd say this looks like a smart investment, although I'd have to tinker with it more before buying.

Their time picker is fine as it's little more than a combo box for the end user. Their date picker however isn't any better than any other I've seen and almost all of them have usability or discoverability problems. In this case entering dates in the far past or future requires a lot of clicks, and for me significantly more effort than typing the date. It's also not terribly discoverable as there's not a visual indication that I could see indicating the year portion of the widget was clickable and could be used to drill down into selecting other years, decades, etc.

What about this one?

http://trentrichardson.com/examples/timepicker/

It extends the standard jQuery UI datepicker but you can turn off the date picker part leaving the time picker.

I've recently explored a lot of these different time widgets.

I didn't like that one because dragging a slider for the time seemed like a lot of work.

I'd rather click, so I ended up with this one that is based on jquery ui as well: http://fgelinas.com/code/timepicker/

Michael Vanderheeren's Absolution UI is pretty gorgeous. http://www.michaelvanderheeren.be/archives/382

Having played with it; and after recently building an app using "jquery-ui or a combination of free and open source solutions" I'd say... because it's actually very good by comparison :)

For an ISV, $399 is next to nothing.

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