1 webcomponents.js 2 ================ 3 4 [](https://gitter.im/webcomponents/webcomponentsjs?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge) 5 6 A suite of polyfills supporting the [Web Components](http://webcomponents.org) specs: 7 8 **Custom Elements**: allows authors to define their own custom tags ([spec](https://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/spec/custom/)). 9 10 **HTML Imports**: a way to include and reuse HTML documents via other HTML documents ([spec](https://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/spec/imports/)). 11 12 **Shadow DOM**: provides encapsulation by hiding DOM subtrees under shadow roots ([spec](https://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/spec/shadow/)). 13 14 This also folds in polyfills for `MutationObserver` and `WeakMap`. 15 16 17 ## Releases 18 19 Pre-built (concatenated & minified) versions of the polyfills are maintained in the [tagged versions](https://github.com/webcomponents/webcomponentsjs/releases) of this repo. There are two variants: 20 21 `webcomponents.js` includes all of the polyfills. 22 23 `webcomponents-lite.js` includes all polyfills except for shadow DOM. 24 25 26 ## Browser Support 27 28 Our polyfills are intended to work in the latest versions of evergreen browsers. See below 29 for our complete browser support matrix: 30 31 | Polyfill | IE10 | IE11+ | Chrome* | Firefox* | Safari 7+* | Chrome Android* | Mobile Safari* | 32 | ---------- |:----:|:-----:|:-------:|:--------:|:----------:|:---------------:|:--------------:| 33 | Custom Elements | ~ | | | | | | | 34 | HTML Imports | ~ | | | | | | | 35 | Shadow DOM | | | | | | | | 36 | Templates | | | | | | | | 37 38 39 *Indicates the current version of the browser 40 41 ~Indicates support may be flaky. If using Custom Elements or HTML Imports with Shadow DOM, 42 you will get the non-flaky Mutation Observer polyfill that Shadow DOM includes. 43 44 The polyfills may work in older browsers, however require additional polyfills (such as classList) 45 to be used. We cannot guarantee support for browsers outside of our compatibility matrix. 46 47 48 ### Manually Building 49 50 If you wish to build the polyfills yourself, you'll need `node` and `gulp` on your system: 51 52 * install [node.js](http://nodejs.org/) using the instructions on their website 53 * use `npm` to install [gulp.js](http://gulpjs.com/): `npm install -g gulp` 54 55 Now you are ready to build the polyfills with: 56 57 # install dependencies 58 npm install 59 # build 60 gulp build 61 62 The builds will be placed into the `dist/` directory. 63 64 ## Contribute 65 66 See the [contributing guide](CONTRIBUTING.md) 67 68 ## License 69 70 Everything in this repository is BSD style license unless otherwise specified. 71 72 Copyright (c) 2015 The Polymer Authors. All rights reserved. 73 74
