News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:The broken promise of Web Components by BinaryIdiot on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @04:04PM (#13879294)
> You cannot buy into Web Components without buying into at least Polymer to supply you with data binding.

Why? You can use Polymer and not its data binding. In fact you can use its polyfills and deal with mostly the standard based APIs. X-Tags and many others also use Polymer's polyfills.

DOM APIs are awkward as hell. But you can create Web Components and handle the data binding yourself. It's actually pretty easy to roll your own data binding. Now whether you should is another matter.

Re:The broken promise of Web Components by floatboth on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @04:49PM (#13879643)
They're not even "its polyfills", the polyfills are a completely standalone project that Polymer depends on.
Re:The broken promise of Web Components by e111077 on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @06:32PM (#13880498)
If you look at the commits / maintainers to the Polymer repos and the WebComponents polyfills, you'll see that it's the same people.