[Question] Using Polymer for progressive enhancement

[mitranim]

I'm sorry if this has been discussed before. Is there a way to use Polymer features with pre-rendered content? As far as I can see, Polymer requires you to prototype each element with <polymer-element name="my-tag"> and then include it via <my-tag>. This requires JS and presumably won't work in <IE10.

Is there a way to use Polymer features like databinding and lifecycle methods with content that doesn't depend on Polymer to be displayed? It feels like I'm missing something.

(Edit.) Nevermind this. Web Components and Shadow DOM require JavaScript polyfills, so it doesn't make sense to talk about pre-rendering Polymer components — you can't pre-render Shadow DOM. Too bad.