Material design with Polymer

rtkwe wrote: post #4

regularfry wrote: post #2

Not encouraging: http://imgur.com/riycCA1

Also the elements themselves don't render properly in FF24 (work mandated): http://imgur.com/AyactvC

Doesn't work properly in FF30 either.

Re: Material design with Polymer

#6

Post by k__ » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 5:52 PM UTC

I liked the idea of polymer much more than the stuff react and angular did.

But the boilerplate of this system is just too much for me.

Re: Material design with Polymer

#7

Post by Kiro » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 5:55 PM UTC

What is Polymer? I thought it was a polyfill for Web Components but this seems like a UI library or something.

Re: Material design with Polymer

#8

Post by cletusw » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 6:03 PM UTC

Kiro wrote: post #7

What is Polymer? I thought it was a polyfill for Web Components but this seems like a UI library or something.

It's both. This is a slightly outdated image, but it describes it pretty well: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rPbEdmEpHWA/UeW4Xqmg0oI/AAAAAAAAAx...

Basically, there's a layer of polyfills called the Platform that will disappear as browsers implement key web platform features natively. On top of that is the main Polymer library, which is a small sugaring library that makes using the individual Platform polyfills together a lot easier. On top of that are a couple different sets of both UI and non-UI web components built using Polymer, namely core-elements and paper-elements.

Re: Material design with Polymer

#9

Post by wildpeaks » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 6:56 PM UTC

I like that they keep developing Polymer, but the IE10+ requirement makes it a hard sell for customer projects :/

Re: Material design with Polymer

#10

Post by sahat » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 7:08 PM UTC

Where does Polymer stand in relation to React.js from Facebook?