I decided explicitly to leave this feature out, but I understand that many people would find it useful to generate static rating displays with JS. Anyway I think the approach would be other, I think that instead of reusing the input replacement and disable the event handling it would be better to create a second method which transforms some kind of static HTML element into the stars display in a total static way, for example:

    <div class='rating-display' data-value="3" data-size="5"></div> <!-- Just inserts 3 <span class="gliphicons gliphicons-star"/> and 2 with the class *-empty", but no input is replaced or generated at all -->