Thanks for your reply :) I did as you said and ran chrome with the flag, but it did not have any effect. The page still appears blank when I open the file locally but works properly if I open it through the local server. Any idea why?
On Saturday, 12 July 2014 15:00:30 UTC+5:30, [email protected] wrote: > > 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/006aa83d-3abb-4cd6-ae91-2e7b87f51e94%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
