Today is an exciting day for Windows web developers are earlier today Apple announced the release of Safari 3 beta for Windows.

Finally, developers can see how their websites render on the WebKit engine that Safari is built on.

While WebKit has been available on Windows for a long time (one simply had to compile the source on Windows), this public pre-compiled browser with the Safari name will be great for marketing as it’ll go mainstream fast (thanks to Apple)

Brushed metal look

Steve Jobs announced that with Leopard’s release in October, brushed metal look will be history and OS X will have a unified look at last.

Surprisingly, Safari for Windows will still bear the look a lot of you despise.

Below is a screen of Youtilize.com loaded on Safari for Windows (Click for bigger image)

Camino. Mozilla Power, Mac style

Above is the title on the Camino’s website. It’s short, yet to the point and gets the message across.

Simply said, today’s release of Camino can really give Safari a run for its money.

And no, I’m not talking about the wonderful site designed by Jon Hicks. I’m talking about the new, long-awaited (15 months to be exact) features of the new Camino 1.5

• Spell Checker
• RSS Feed detection
• Session Saver
• Pop-up Blocker
• Better Tabs
• And more

Cons

What’s still lacking in both Safari and Camino for me is the lack of debugging ability for front-end code (JavaScript).

I think after having worked so close with Firefox’s Firebug, I simply can’t imagine working with any other debugger.

Rendering

Camino is a Mozilla family browser which means it’s based on the great Gecko (1.8.1) rendering engine.

Still, it may be every developer’s wet dream, but it’s slower than its competitor Webkit, a native Mac engine.

Having said all that, I’m still sticking with Firefox 2 for now.