What's up with the Safari 3 Beta?

Published 13 June 07 by Justin French, 4 comments

It actually installs over the top of Safari 2, which means without two computers, you can’t compare the two rendering engines side by side or retain Safari 2 as your “browser” whilst checking out the progress of Safari 3.

It also means that I had to uninstall incompatible plugins (Saft, for example), and I think it crapped on other WebKit-based applications on my system (like Pyro). And it required a restart (gasp!).

I’m sure there’s a sufficient excuse, but why couldn’t it be a stand-alone application?

It’s at least a little amusing that it was easier for me to check out Safari 3 on Windows XP than it was on OS X, and that I was looking at Safari inside Windows inside a Mac via Parallels.

Oh well. The Windows version looks pretty damn slick, and I’m pretty impressed they went the whole way on things like font rendering… WebKit for Windows in general is exciting.