Peter Johansson wrote:

>> How come then that some Mac web developer acquaintances of mine never heard
>> of having a development web server running on their machines in pre-OS X
>> times? Something that was quite common among Windows web developers
>> (working on NT type systems). Did they just not know?
> 
> The question here is, "what is a development server?"  Are you talking
> about a server for static content, or are are you talking about a
> server with dynamic capabilities?  

As you correctly stated, for static content you don't really need a server,
you can just browse your local files. I was talking about dynamic content
and highly functional pages that require a /real/ web server for
development, and usually also a database server. It was so normal for me to
have all this on my local system present that I was really surprised to
hear that these Mac guys couldn't do this -- with all the hype about the
Mac being ages ahead.

> Since I never did any server work on anything aside from Unix I can't
> say for sure, but while it seems correct that full server development
> on the desktop did come to Windows prior to MacOS, MacOS wasn't really
> all that far behind.

It seems that either it did it, or it didn't do it... and from what you
seem to confirm, it didn't do it (until OS X, of course).

Gerhard
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