Question on Polymer

[Jeremiah Agenyi]

Hi.

I stumbled on polymer today after being on an endless search for a solution that would enable integrate/embed google docs live on a webpage without using frames. Its a form of situational report solution where viewers can see live updates on a page on our website…and the updates being fed by a google doc being updated by different people from different location. Why we need a solution other than the iframe is to make the content searchable by the viewers so as to track an information on the constantly updated document.

From the little I have read, I believe Polymer may be able to do this, so I am committed to learning it and implementing it. But I just need to be sure if Polymer is really able to achieve that.

Thanks.

[Eric Bidelman]

How do you plan to interface with Google Docs. The Drive API wouldn't work for your use case. 

Have you seen the Realtime API? 

https://developers.google.com/google-apps/realtime/

What Polymer will give you is style/DOM scoping in your application (without iframes). But you'll still need to create

elements that interact with said API.

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[Jeremiah Agenyi]

Thanks for your response and sorry for taking some time to respond. I am traditionally not a programmer and a bit lay here, so please permit my layman's self expression. :)

Yeah I am aware from the little I have read that the G.Drive API may not work for me. But with what polymer offers, I think it allows whatever element or content it generates in the DOM to become part of the DOM and as such functions like COMMAND+F should work fine, a function which fails for iframes. If this is true, then that is the solution we wish to implement, and as such I can invest the time to learn polymer (which by the way sounds really interesting...really).

An added functionality I wish will be possible if content generated can be optimized for Search Engines.

I hope I was able to communicate :)

Thanks for your time.

[Eric Bidelman]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 6:52 AM Jeremiah Agenyi <jerry...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for your response and sorry for taking some time to respond. I am traditionally not a programmer and a bit lay here, so please permit my layman's self expression. :)

Yeah I am aware from the little I have read that the G.Drive API may not work for me. But with what polymer offers, I think it allows whatever element or content it generates in the DOM to become part of the DOM and as such functions like COMMAND+F should work fine, a function which fails for iframes. If this is true, then that is the solution we wish to implement, and as such I can invest the time to learn polymer (which by the way sounds really interesting...really).

Yes exactly. For example, you can cmd+F search on this https://www.chromestatus.com, which is implemented in Polymer.