Its probably due to the fact the without a server the imports wouldn’t be allowed under the browser’s same origin policy. You can bypass that by opening Chrome with --allow-file-access-from-files flag:
Just set up a shortcut with the following target: C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome --allow-file-access-from-files and it should work On Saturday, July 12, 2014 12:00:00 PM UTC+3, [email protected] wrote: > > HI, I'm following this > <http://www.polymer-project.org/docs/start/tutorial/intro.html> tutorial > on polymer-project.org. In it it says that I need a web server to test my > pages. > I'm sorry if this is a very stupid question, but why do I need a web > server? Why don't the pages work if you simply open the index.html files > locally in the browser? I just want to understand. By my reasoning it > should work the same way whether it is loaded from a remote server or the > local filesystem. > 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/30ba7f97-9250-4f58-8e40-2bf2fbbc163b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
