This is kinda offtopic but any idea how I would go about starting a native mac OSX port would be greatly appreciated (I'm still very new too developing, and don't know much except for some basic C++ and
I assume you already know about this (Mac OS X Launcher for Inkscape) http://www.coswellproductions.org/index.php/code/inkscape_mac_os_x_launcher....
C...) I'm not sure how to sort of just replace all the gtk widgets with cocoa ones. At the moment I use adobe illustrator for web
I'd urge you to look at http://gtk-osx.sourceforge.net/ rather than rewriting the user interface in Cocoa. Working on GTK would help bring many more applications to MAc OS X beyond just Inkscape and it would avoid the need to maintain a seperate port of Inkscape.
Sincerely
Alan H.