On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 7:43 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Coming from a more obejct oriented UI development approach (XAML, Android, > ...) I have suffered great pains with web development, both as the > architect and as an implementer. > > Currently I am re-architecting an old VB6 two-tiered (large) business > application. > The basic plan is to have a set of HTML 5 Single Page Applications > interacting with ASP.NET WebApi. > > We already completed a project using jQuery, jQuery UI and kncockout.js, > but again it was painful for all the reasons that web components are > designed to solve. > Therefore I am looking at Web Components / Polymer with great hope, but I > can't really sell an approach internally that is in a pre-alpha stage. >
The pre-alpha label looks pretty ridiculous at this stage. It was our way of communicating "use at your own risk" when we talked about this at Google I/O last year. Since then, the risk has decreased *substantially--*many folks have used Polymer productively, and we're very happy with how Polymer has matured--but the label hasn't changed. We hope to change it soon to reflect reality better. > > So, finally, my question: At what point will it become "reasonable" to > start serious commercial development with Polymer? > Ultimately, the label is just a label (we could have chosen to call the current version of Polymer 1.0 if we wanted, after all) and it's up to each individual or company to make the call for themselves. (Obviously I understand that the label can make it harder to convince *other *people in the organization of the readiness). For what it's worth, a number of folks have been using Polymer for real things despite its pre-alpha label and had success. As an example, the Globe visualization for Google's 2013 Zeitgeist <http://www.google.com/trends/zeitgeist/2013/globe#city=san_francisco_usa>was implemented with Polymer, and Salesforce built some really cool stuff<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cduPbkLvbI&t=42m04s>with Polymer. > Is there a rough time-line? Weeks? Months? Years? > Work is progressing at a very fast pace in Blink to ship HTML Imports, Shadow DOM, and Custom Elements in the next few months. Custom Elements, for example, is on track to ship in the next version of Chrome stable. Once those technologies ship, it will give me, personally, a *lot *more confidence. Hope this helps. > > Karl > > Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Polymer" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Polymer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
