Everything is an Element
What is Polymer?
Takes advantage of polyfills for emerging web standards
Debuted at Google I/O 2013
What Polymer is NOT
Web Component Model
An attempt to modularize the web
Templates
Decorators
Custom Elements
Shadow DOM
Imports
Chunks of markup that can be activated for later use
Let CSS affect markup changes
Let authors define their own elements
Encapsulates a DOM subtree
Can be seen in the current video tag
A single tag gives play button, volume control, video stream, etc
Import
Standardize importing of different file types
Layers of Polymer
Example
Polymer-UI-breadcrumbs
Community Elements
http://customelements.io/
By Diego Barahona