Cocoa licensing and copyright

[jarek-foksa]

Just wondering, what is Apple's stance on web projects recreating the look and feel of Cocoa widgets?

I was thinking about starting a similar project using Custom Elements and Shadow DOM. However, I was unable to get any information from Apple regarding the restrictions that apply to third-party implementations of their widgets.

It's highly unlikely they would ever allow apps with Cocoa UI to be distributed on non-Apple platforms (including Web), but Electron looks like a grey area to me.

[DanielRuf]

I guess you wanted to ask this in the Electron issue tracker, not Photon.

[jarek-foksa]

Electron is not recreating Cocoa widgets, it just provides a JS API to interact with the native implementation (menubar, dock, tabs, window).

[DanielRuf]

I see many UI libraries for Electron which recreate this style and are still actively developed.