You're not the first to ask this question :) Let me clarify a couple of things before getting to your questions. Polymer's webcomponents.js is a library that contains several polyfills for various W3C APIs that fall under the Web Components umbrella. These are: Custom Elements HTML Imports <template> Shadow DOM Pointer Events others The left-nav in the documentation (polymer-project.org) has a pag
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