Hi Rob, Thank you and team for Polymer, it's a wonderful thing, as is DART and Angular!
I am just leaning Polymer Dart and I plan to adopt these frameworks/languages for all future HTML 5 development. What would help me a lot, and likely a ton of others is to understand when will the Polymer team complete full Polyfill support for *IE10+,* Safari 6+, Mobile Safari? Currently *IE10+* shows *Limited (Useable)* on *Template*, *Mutation Observer*, *Custom Elements*. This may be the reason that whenever I load up a Polymer based application it rarely renders in *IE11.09 (Desk Top)* and almost never in the Windows 8.1 *(Tile View) IE Browser*. Do you see *IE10+* getting full PolyFill support anytime soon (perhaps before end of 2014)? Also, what's up with IE, why hasn't MS provided any native support of Web Components. I thought MS was part of the group pushing the HTML 5 spec? Cheers John On Saturday, June 28, 2014 7:12:21 PM UTC-4, Rob Dodson wrote: > Hey fabrice, as I mentioned over on Youtube > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKrYfrAzqFA&google_comment_id=z12cz3qjbzidhdu0h23szp3prmbggnufm>, > > we only support the last two version of each browser. Polymer is a future > facing library and we would need to significantly increase the size and > complexity of our polyfill layer if we started reaching back to support > extremely old legacy browsers. > > Btw, you mentioned IE10, we actually do support that one. And there aren't > many users on older versions of Chrome and Firefox as those browsers > auto-update. > > > On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 3:48 AM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> *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] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/b7192201-3fd6-48fe-ac20-a042e6f6ee41%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/b7192201-3fd6-48fe-ac20-a042e6f6ee41%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > 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/3a70a298-1f9c-4440-a503-2cf981b57d09%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
