IconFactory's WorldWideWeb

I absolutely love IconFactory's apps. I use at least 2 or 3 of them on almost a daily basis. Iconfactory's developer Craig Hockenberry announced a new app recently and it home for me.

The Mac and Web have a long history together. From the very beginning, Mac OS X included the ability to run an Apache web server by clicking a Start button
About a decade ago, things started to change. Since then it’s gotten harder and harder to start a simple web server for testing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I eventually found a way to do it using AppleScript, but as Apple continues to remove open source components from its standard macOS distribution, this workaround isn’t likely to last.

It's simple and yet powerful. Reminded me of my college and work days when starting an apache or IIS server and hosting your PHP application was the way to go about developing your app.

FYI, this works on macOS, iOS and iPadOS.

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