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Polymer vs Water.css: What are the differences?
Polymer: A new library built on top of Web Components, designed to leverage the evolving web platform on modern browsers. Polymer is a new type of library for the web, designed to leverage the existing browser infrastructure to provide the encapsulation and extendability currently only available in JS libraries. Polymer is based on a set of future technologies, including Shadow DOM, Custom Elements and Model Driven Views. Currently these technologies are implemented as polyfills or shims, but as browsers adopt these features natively, the platform code that drives Polymer evacipates, leaving only the value-adds; Water.css: A just-add-css collection of styles to make simple websites just a little nicer. A css framework that doesn't require any classes. You just include it in your
and forget about it, while it silently makes everything nicer.Polymer and Water.css can be primarily classified as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.
Polymer and Water.css are both open source tools. Polymer with 21.1K GitHub stars and 2K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Water.css with 4.09K GitHub stars and 157 GitHub forks.
Pros of Polymer
- Web components52
- Material design30
- HTML14
- Components13
- Open source5
- It uses the platform4
- Designer friendly. HTMLX concepts3
- Like the interesting naming convention for elements1
Pros of Water.css
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Cons of Polymer
- Last version is like 2 years ago? that's totally rad1