I've been in the habit of pointing friends and colleagues to the Polymer project since the early Toolkitchen days. My experience has been that have been* wowed, amazed and thrilled* and many of them are active advocates of the technology today. I had an equal experience since the early days of Angular.
However, *this all stopped working* a few weeks back. When I point them to http://www.polymer-project.org they come back confused. This is my accumulated synopsis of their feedback: - Polymer is a framework supporting "the latest web technologies" that uses something called "bower" to download "elements that are a glimpse in our collective communities eyes" that works "across desktop and mobile" that work with "encapsulation". But hey, Joachim, what does it do? The point is that you've forgotten to bring the initial *gist* to greet the visitor. The message is hidden deep in the mountains. The first scroll *gist* is what made Angular page work and it is what captures the audience in Eric Bidelmans slide deck. The *gist* that makes my heart pump faster should start on the *first scroll* of the* first page* and continue at least one level down in your site map. 1. <pie-chart slices="10,20,70"><pie-chart> (Wow, got it) 2. <input value={{name}}/> (Hey, I like mustaches) 3. What is that bouncing thing? Web animations this easy? Cool 4. Unbelievable, I can create the <my-racecar> tag without even relying on a framework 5. Ready made tags! Now we are talking. Please I want this!!! Now the message is hidden deep into the mountains and the visitor learn that "everything is an element" and what package manager you choose (and why) even before she even grasped that Polymer relates to HTML (remove the single four letters on the first scroll hinting at this and we could equally well be talking about server side array elements). You are long over the initial excitement but the new visitor just started to glare at the first scroll of your site. You have taken the next step of wanting to show that encapsulation works on larger components than the user interface widget but the visitor does not even know that she can have a superbutton at this point. Redo the order of engagement because your technology deserves it and let Eric spend some time to translate his presentation skills to the top of your site map. 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/653a9cfe-c660-4851-9d4c-173731111ac0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
