Agree with your alternative, it makes more sense, I was being lazy and trying to avoid more code than needed for my use case. 

This really is a critical feature, yes it's trivial for ppl to implement seperately but then there's another bit of code to be tracked etc. better if it's the one piece of code for input and display. 

Regards,
Daniel

> On 11 Dec 2013, at 11:10, Javier Toledo <notifications@github.com> wrote:
> 
> In bootstrap-rating-input.js:
> 
> > @@ -98,6 +103,15 @@
> >            $(this).find('.rating-clear').show();
> >          }
> >        });
> > +    } else {
> 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 -->
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