So, last night I mentioned I chose Subtext over dasBlog due to some rendering issues in Safari.  Ok, I didn't mention it quite like that but you get the idea.  Since my main machine at home is an iMac, Safari support wasn't crucial but it was the equivalent of a coin toss for me.    

Scott Hanselman pointed out in his comment, rightly so, that it looked fine to him.  I know what I saw, so I quickly downloaded Safari beta 3 on my windows dev machine at work to get a screen shot of what I was talking about.  Unfortunately, he's right.  It looks exactly the same as it does in IE 7, and as it is intended I presume.

This can't be right.  I know what I saw.

At that point I was convinced that it must be an issue exclusive to OS X.  I rushed home this evening and started opening browsers. 

Here's what I found:

IE 7 on Win XP	Safari 3 Beta WinXP	Safari 2 OS X

          
So I'm not crazy, nor is Scott Hanselman.  We're both right. 

On that note, I decided to get the Safari 3 beta for OS X and see if it's Safari 2 or just Safari on OS X that's the issue.

Here's Safari 3 Beta on OS X Tiger:


  Safari 3 Beta OS X


So, it's obviously Safari 2 that has rendering issues.  I guess the question remains how important is it to support Safari 2 on OS X?  Probably not very, but it did swing my vote.

(As a side note, all this screen grabbing must have tore my monitor - I just found a dead pixel.  Not happy about that.)

Cheers.