Author: Marcus Hellberg
Using Polymer components in Angular 2
We have some great news for all Angular 2 users out there! While working on providing a seamless Angular 2 integration to Vaadin Elements, we ended up building a universal Polymer to Angular 2 adapter that allows you to use any Polymer Element in your Angular 2 application. This means that in ...
Announcing Vaadin Core Elements 1.0
Vaadin has been in the business of building UI components for the web since our start in 2000. Over the years, we’ve built up a big library of components and more importantly we’ve learned a lot about what developers and businesses need from their components. With the introduction of the Web ...
Date Picker and Upload Element 1.0 betas released
Choosing a date is a common requirement in business applications. We wanted to provide an effortless and intuitive way of scrolling through months and years to find the date you are looking for. As a result, we just released the vaadin-date-picker element with two scrolling areas – one for months ...
Vaadin combo box reimagined as a Polymer element – 1.0 beta ready to be used in desktop and mobile applications
Business app workhorse If a data table/grid is the most prominent and defining component of a UI framework, the combo box might be the most commonly used of the more complex widgets in business applications. It is very helpful for the users in situations where they have a very long list of options ...
Web Components in production use – are we there yet?
A lot of progress has been made since the introduction of web components back in 2011 but are they supported across all browsers. Are we there yet? While browser vendors are still working on native implementations, libraries have been able to use a polyfill to make web components available to ...
Migrating NPAPI based Java applications to the web
UPDATE Jan 27, 2016: Oracle has announced that they are discontinuing the Java browser plugin as of Java 9. Google, Mozilla and Microsoft have all dropped support for NPAPI in their latest browsers. This means that if your business is using an application that relies on the Java browser plugin, ...
Vaadin Elements – a set of Web Components for business apps
As you have probably noticed, we recently introduced a new product called Vaadin Elements. Vaadin Elements builds on the Web Components standards and Google Polymer and will allow you to start using Vaadin components in any front end framework – like jQuery, Angular 2, React, Ember 2 or any plain ...
Using Polymer Elements in GWT development
The upcoming W3C Web Components standards promise to simplify large web application development through the use of custom HTML elements that encapsulate behavior and presentation in reusable components. While browser vendors are still working on implementing native support for Web Components ...
Where is Vaadin TouchKit heading?
In this second post on mobile web application development and Vaadin TouchKit, I’ll be talking about the future of TouchKit. With TouchKit 1.0 released, development focus will be switched to TouchKit 2.0. The biggest new feature in the following major release of TouchKit is support for building ...