Regarding the broken promise of Web Components

As a member of the Polymer team, I consider myself very familiar with Web Components. As a body of specs, they are not perfect, and are certainly worthy of critique. I firmly believe that an educated critique of Web Components by the community will result in a better platform for everyone.

What saddens me about the earlier "broken promise" article is that it falls into the same pit that similar, prominent critiques have fallen in to: the author does not fully understand the specs and has probably never made an earnest attempt to exercise the primitives so that he or she might better understand their true limitations. Rob's article demonstrates how much of the argument is at best misinformed and at worst disingenuous.

There are serious problems to be overcome. I wish critics would depart from their dogma and rally behind the web platform. However flawed it may be, the best way to improve it is for the community to come together and talk from an educated and positively motivated place about how to make it better.