for local development, i think its perfectly reasonable to assume a built-in development server can handle serving static content. in fact, if it didn't, i'd be

for local development, i think its perfectly reasonable to assume a built-in development server can handle serving static content. in fact, if it didn't, i'd be a little sour -- it can serve dynamic content, so why not static? and, not everyone wants to run apache or nginx or lighty on their dev machines.