I would have loved to believe so. However, when i see this site and almost any other polymer creation not only not render but also fail in a non-graceful manner on stock android browsers, i do not quite get convinced of that.
There needs be more time and effort in making the great work(polymer) reach prime time. Would love to get thoughts of community on same. ~Saurabh https://about.me/saurshaz On Apr 28, 2015 11:22 PM, "Richard" <[email protected]> wrote: > We have developed perhaps the largest Polymer.js web app/site to date; our > app is certainly much bigger than the Topeka app. > https://learn.modern-developer.com/ > > I will write a comprehensive overview (the good, the bad, and the > wonderful) of Polymer later, but for now, ruminate on the following: > > 1. *The worst part of Polymer* is that the Polyfill library is slow when > it has to render and parse a lot of content. The beta version of our site > used to timeout on Firefox, until we implement lazy loading. And our site > used to take about 2 minutes to load on Safari. But now it works fast and > very well on all evergreen browsers, after we helped out Polymer a bit by > not forcing it to load and parse all the content at once. > > 2. *The best part of Polymer* (and something no one seems to speak of) is > that you can use it as a combination of jQuery + Bootstrap + > Backbone/Angular (or any other frontend framework). And because you can do > *nearly* everything either imperatively (that is, with pure JavaScript > code, as you would in React.js) or declaratively (that is, with standard or > custom HTML elements and template variables), you will likely experience > frontend development nirvana, the elusive delight and joy one feels when > there exists no boundary between work, play, pleasure. > > By the way, we are interested in hiring a top notch Frontend Developer and > Backend Developer for two of the absolute best modern developer jobs in the > entire industry right now. No, you don't have to know Polymer.js (but it > will certainly help); you just have to be creative, gritty, and highly > skilled. > ______________________________________________ > Here is a bit more: > You will change thousands (likely millions) of lives, influence a new > generation of web developers, and create four of the largest and most > ambitious programs for developers, all while *simultaneously solving > real-world problems* like eradicable disease, poverty, and lack of > education and opportunity in impoverished countries. No, we aren't a > nonprofit; we just do badass developer stuff while simultaneously solving > other real-world problems. > > Becoming very rich will likely be just an unintended inevitably, so we > won't even have to discuss salary and equity until we must, because the > incredible work we are doing, the people's life we will change, and the > enriching life we ourselves will live, will be much more rewarding than any > millions of dollars each of us is likely to make over the coming months and > years. > > We already have hundreds of enrolled students, even though the Career > Paths don't begin until the fall. > https://learn.modern-developer.com/ > Check out the *Work for Us* section on our Learn.Modern Developer site. > The link is at the bottom of the page. I can't think of any other > company—not Google, not Facebook—that gives their employees as much as we > do. You would be core engineer number 3. > > The other parts of Modern Developer are coming in early 2016; you can read > a synopsis of each here: > https://modern-developer.com/ > ______________________________________________ > > 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/6f77b77f-8f25-42cf-9b61-fa9e8fbe8935%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/6f77b77f-8f25-42cf-9b61-fa9e8fbe8935%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/CALu-crUDx4cA%2BeXY_Qr7X%2B2Emz-BgWnVgqQEALVOvb06HMuPkQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
