Provide a provide a way to instantiate the template directly into the element

[jonrimmer]

Polymer automatically instantiates the element template within a shadow root. There may be cases where developers want the contents of the template to be in the regular DOM tree, so they are accessibly to external scripts. A way to control whether the cloned template is placed within a shadow root or appended as a child of the element would be useful.

[gunn]

+1. While we're at it, a way to enable external styles too, I'm currently doing:

Polymer.register(this, {
  ready: function () {
    this.webkitShadowRoot.applyAuthorStyles = true;
  }
});

[sjmiles]

@gunn, fwiw, you can do this:

Polymer.register(this, {
  applyAuthorStyles: true
});

[gunn]

Thanks @sjmiles!

[dfreedm]

This seems like a special case of #156.