Platform.js

[cletusw]

Now that HTML Imports, Shadow DOM, HTML Templates, Mutation Observers, and Object.observe() are native in Chrome Stable, are there any plans to enable use of Polymer without Platform.js? Or at least with just a sub-set (like pointer events/gestures, Node.bind and web animations)? Obviously it won't make sense for a vast majority of use cases, but for those who can restrict their audience to Chrome, 40+kb (gzipped) less to download sounds extremely appealing.

[Jan Marthedal Rasmussen]

As I understand it, Polymer and platform.js are unrelated in the following sense:

If your browser has native support for the web components you mention, you can just skip loading platform.js and only use Polymer.

On the other hand, if you want to use web components in a native VanillaJS way, just can just load platform.js to get the increased browser support.

Platform.js just happens to be developed by the same group of people...

- Jan

[Steve Orvell]

Yes, we're working towards making a version of polymer that works without platform.js on supported platforms.

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[cletusw]

Awesome! Thanks, Steve!

[Rob Dodson]

If your browser has native support for the web components you mention, you can just skip loading platform.js and only use Polymer.

There are still a few bits of Polymer which rely on platform.js so we'll need to untangle those threads first. As Steve mentioned, it's something we're working on :) 

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 5:20 AM, Jan Marthedal Rasmussen <jan.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Billy Graban]

Very cool to hear!  Just starting learning about this system and I look forward to learning as much as possible.  I'm new to web programming, but this solution is very powerful.