Slides from my opening talk at Polymer training @ PSU 2017. This talk starts with a brief history of the web from the perspective of everyone trying to figure out how to make it a platform. We end our history on web components, polymer, and what a silly web component looks like, how we use it and then lead off into the day's training. This is partly serious, partly silly as the history starts with Space Jam, Homestarrunner and Zombocom shoutouts and ends with the newly launched youtube.com and some of the futurist work we're doing with HAX for a headless authoring experience as realized via web components.
2. Bryan Ollendyke
@btopro
College of Arts and Architecture
Office of Digital Learning
Michael Potter
@hey__mp
Eberly College of Science
Office of Digital Learning
[[reallyGreat]] <polymer-trainers really-great>
4. Public Service Announcement
• Wide browser support requires polyfill
• Old browsers (IE10 / below) need not apply
• Client side rendering needs to shake out if required
• Front end devs everything you know is a wrong (JK)
• Question much, and enjoy.
35. 2008 W3C says Web needs a level up
2014 Web Levels up (HTML5)
1996 Space Jam HTML = platform
1999 Flash = platform
2013 EVERYONE MAKES A PLATFORM
2016 Google makes…
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37. 2008 W3C says Web needs a level up
2014 Web Levels up (HTML5)
1996 Space Jam HTML = platform
1999 Flash = platform
2013 EVERYONE MAKES A PLATFORM
2016 Google makes Google Earth with Polymer
2017 Google makes…
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40. 2008 HTML 5 != new
2011 Web components != new
2013 Polymer 0.x != new
2015 Polymer 1.0 != new
2016 Polymer 2.0 != new