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The fastest way to build beautiful Electron apps using simple HTML and CSS
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Cocoa licensing and copyright #136

Open jarek-foksa opened 7 years ago

jarek-foksa commented 7 years ago

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 commented 6 years ago

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

jarek-foksa commented 6 years ago

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

DanielRuf commented 6 years ago

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