People are taking the Web much more seriously than they have in the past, and are asking critical questions of their Web development staff. What I am seeking to bring to MacNow's readers with this new monthly column is a sense of this bigger picture. One need only navigate any one of the growing myriad of sites on the Web today to discover how difficult a medium it can be to use and how fragile the technology that is implemented on it can be at times. As a commercial Webmaster, I am constantly forced to admit, despite vigorous design and testing of technologies, that I cannot reproduce the problems my customers sometimes experience when visiting one of my sites. This is the Internet's biggest weakness in my opinion, but is also one of its greatest strengths.
People using almost any platform can access content and view it without platform issues.
Macintosh Internet developers have the best set of tools available anywhere to do their work. This makes the Macintosh a better Web authoring platform for doing the complete task of creating, designing, maintaining, and updating Web sites. I know that I find the Macintosh interface much easier for the task of file management than any other operating system that I have used to date. This brings me to the problems. Macintosh Web client software is way behind its Windows counterparts in the implementation of new standards, version releases, and optimization.