Safari 3 Public Beta

Apple has released a public beta of Safari 3 for Mac OS X and Windows. Great news of course, but for Mac users it comes with one big caveat -- like IE on Windows, Apple has taken a rather draconian approach by replacing Safari 2 when you install Safari 3. So if you run any Safari add-ons, like Red Snapper or 1passwd, you will not be able to use them (at least for the time being, if their developers feel like supporting the beta).

Thankfully, the public beta does come with an uninstaller that re-installs 2 if you don't want to keep 3, but (from a web development perspective) it would be way more helpful if Apple allowed you to keep both.

Speaking of web development, the release of Safari for Windows is fantastic news. Finally, Windows developers will be able to preview/test their work in Safari, without owning a Mac, and have a pretty accurate (if not identical) representation of what Mac users will see.