Polymer Ready for Education?

[Marco Jakob]

I'm very excited about Polymer! Looking back at Google I/O there were a lot of talks (even keynote) about Polymer. I got the impression that Polymer should be ready.

Currently, I'm evaluating Polymer for a larger curriculum, to be used in various educational settings. For this I would need some working web components. But when I try the Demos on polymer-project.org (Topeka, Paper Elements, Calculator) they mostly don't work in IE. Even the main polymer-project.org homepage isn't rendered correctly in IE11.

My question: When do you think will most paper-elements and core-elements be usable in the browsers that Polymer aims to support? I would need support for IE10, IE11, and Safari. If I can expect most of those elements to work by August this year, I could use Polymer for the curriculum.

(This would be great as I see a lot of potential for Polymer, and especially Polymer.dart in education: As a teacher you can show how to use Polymer Elements and create some Elements for the students that would be too complex to build for them at the beginning. It enables creating very attractive web applications right from the start. This wasn't possible before web components as you couldn't hide the complexity in such a clean way while still staying true to using "just" HTML.)

Thank you for your great work!

Cheers,

Marco