This is well stated - could not agree more. But in all fairness to Google, it is also hard to label Polymer as version 1.0 when the underlying web standards are not yet final, a process over which Google does not have sole control.
Karl On Thursday, January 16, 2014 8:01:53 PM UTC-5, Jan Miksovsky wrote: > > I've run into this question several times recently when trying to convince > various clients to use web components and Polymer. The issue is that most > businesses considering depending on a platform for real business use will > need a more substantial commitment than, "Use it when you feel it's ready." > People want to know when *Google* thinks it's ready for business use. > (While the examples of Polymer apps out there are interesting, AFAIK, no > one's bottom line currently depends on Polymer.) As you suggest, few dev > leads/CTOs are going to be able to justify why they're using something that > says "pre-alpha" and version 0.1.2. > > Alex: I think it'd be great if Google could shoot for announcing that > Polymer has reached 1.0 at Google I/O this year. Or, if not then, then to > at least publish a roadmap to 1.0. That would be a huge help in promoting > this to clients. > > On Thursday, January 16, 2014 8:12:23 AM UTC-8, Bobby Powers wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Alex Komoroske wrote: >> > 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. >> >> It is great to hear that the timeframe for shipping/enabling HTML >> Imports, Shadow DOM and Custom Elements in Chrome is on the order of >> months rather than a year+. >> >> yours, >> Bobby >> > 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/0d5a31a9-329e-4c37-8a5f-76c68331eefa%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
