Yesterday Apple released their Safari 3 (beta) browser for Windows. It was easy to install (I didn't go for QT or Bonjour) and seems very fast at loading up pages. You only seem to be able to resize it by grabbing the lower-right corner. Trivial maybe, but I've already found it frustrating to move it around just to widen it.
On the plus side it seems they are keeping the font rendering the same so testing your websites and PC created apps for the iPhone should be a breeze though it does look smudged compared to the normal windows fonts. Also Safari supports a lot of the CSS3 goodness, which means this is available to a widening audience, like multi-column text.
It also retains the MAC's aqua theme for form elements which should make testing a little better for form weirdness that invariably crops up and, IMO, is another reason to not style form elements.
A couple of other peoples blogs mention Safari on the PC. For one it crashed, twice, and others are a finding bugs and usability problems.
I don't think this is going to be a big contender against Firefox or IE as the UI is not what PC users are used to, but choice is always good to have.
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