OK, it's still unclear why they're bothering, but Apple is clearly improving Safari 3.x on Windows at a pretty impressive rate. Here's what's new in the latest version:
Just adding support for the Forward and Back buttons on my mouse makes this about 200 percent more usable.The Safari 3 Beta for Windows version 3.0.4 Update is recommended for all users running Safari 3 Beta for Windows. It includes new features as well as improvements to stability, compatibility, performance, and security.
New features:
- Allows windows to be resized from any side
- Includes an additional font smoothing option ("standard")
- Adds International text input methods
- Adds advanced text options (contextual forms, international scripts)
- Supports NTLM
- Includes auto-detection of PAC files
- Supports listing FTP directories
- Links to proxy settings from Safari (Safari respects the proxy settings in the Windows Internet control panel)
- Adds cookie management
- Adds LiveConnect support
- Includes tooltips
- Adds spell checking and grammar checking
- Allows printing of page numbers, titles, margins
- Improves bookmark collection interface
- Maintains original order of imported bookmarks
- Adds an interface for editing AutoFill information
- History searches now search the full text of visited websites
- Adds a new preference to manually mark RSS articles as read
- Includes support for tilt wheels