Published property with default value not reflected

[arthurevans]

If I create a published property with a default value and reflect: true, the property isn't reflected as an attribute until I change the property. Test case here:

http://jsbin.com/sogon/7/edit

The text here should show up in red (and the should show up as in devtools), but it doesn't.

If you use devtools to change the highlight value to 'red', nothing happens -- apparently we detect that the value hasn't changed and don't serialize it.

If you change it to another value then back to red, it works.

Currently, you can work around this by just setting reflect: true in the publish block and setting the default value in the ready callback. But it seems like the default value should reflect correctly.

[sjmiles]

No standard element reflects the default value of an attribute. If that was the case, the runtime DOM would explode with attributes.

If there is a bug, it's probably that it ever reflects a value that matches the prototype default.

[arthurevans]

This is documented as the current behavior:
http://www.polymer-project.org/docs/polymer/polymer.html#attrreflection

Closing issue.