Actually, I had a different window of chrome open when I tried that so it did not work as the flag wasn't enabled. I tried it again after closing all chrome windows and it worked. My bad. Thanks for your help :)
On Saturday, 12 July 2014 18:04:45 UTC+5:30, [email protected] wrote: > > 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/81766522-281b-46d0-9f5b-1d9f3c35943b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
