*Polymer is amazing! (but you probably know this)* Polymer and Material Design was one of the most exciting things I have since in a while!
I really liked the idea you could build apps with UI standards for Native device also across the web -- these days so many people think that the web is dead: because Apps are dominating in Mobile and Mobile is quickly dominating the web. I also especially liked transitions/animations which I think is the next paradigm and really can improve UX. The whole Material Design is amazing. Really really really amazing! I found myself watching as many videos as possible on Polymer and Material Design and there are now quite a few! *Browser compatibility: will Polymer be usable in the next 3 years?* But the one big BIG disappointment is browser compatibility. I was disappointed when I say the compatibility guidelines: http://www.polymer-project.org/resources/compatibility.html But somehow I couldn't beleive it and I just hoped it somehow degraded nicely on older browser. I was very disappointed when I found it really doesn't degrade beautifully at all on things like Safari 5 or IE9. It just completely falls appart. Apparently even Android web-view in some cases Polymer will completely break. So everything that was exciting about it especially being cross-device suddenly looked very over-stated at best. I mean we are all still hoping we can finally put IE6 behind us... So Safari 5, IE10, or older versions of Chrome & Firefox: that's at least 3 to 5 years *at best*! I am surprised more efforts were not put to help adopting Polymer by creating a smoother transition by having ways to degrade Polymer beautifully on older browsers. Even if that meant loosing the benefits of Polymer for any of these Browsers. Have I missed something? Is there a way to degrade beautiful Polymer to support the majority of browsers? Will browser compatibility improve: is that somewhere on the near future of the product roadmap? Note: Attaching screenshot of Polymer demo running on Safari 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/b7192201-3fd6-48fe-ac20-a042e6f6ee41%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
