Yesterday, at the Worldwide Developers Conference and exactly in time for the birthday party of this project Apple introduced the new version of Safari. The interesting fact is that they have made a version for Microsoft Windows, so that I do not have to torment the old Mac mini with upgrading the operating system etc.

My first impression is: wow, this thing is fast! It runs my applications in development and all test cases or prototypes at a similar speed as Firefox. Positioning elements is done faster in Firefox, but setting other attributes seems to faster in Safari. I have run some benchmarks to get a better impression of this.
In the past I had some problems running some test cases in Safari on OS X, which stopped on JavaScript errors which were difficult to debug in Safari. So, it is amazing that everything runs in Safari now.
I have to figure out how to enable Drosera on Safari for Windows to really use this browser for testing.

Screenshot of a Google result page with Safari 3 BetaOn my machine I have a strange problem with fonts, which occurs from time to time. It looks as if some characters can not be displayed.

I'm curious about Ben's report on the WWDC 2007. Be shure to read his blog in the next days. ;-)

Update:
Thank you daeg for informing us how to enable the debug menu on Windows machines in your comment on the Slashdot article Safari on Windows.