Dave Hyatt has posted a list of what's new in Safari 1.1. Unfortunately, Safari 1.1 appears to be for Mac OS X 10.3 only (visiting the Safari page at Apple.com lists 1.0 as the current release). Is this how it's going to be? Safari and WebKit are great products. But there's an eerie feeling here, as Microsoft has said that Internet Explorer will essentially only be updated with new releases of Windows.
Granted, it's barely a day after the release of Panther, but if there are fixes and refinements to Safari's HTML capabilities - shouldn't those who choose not to pay the $129 price for Panther get those fixes too?
Bundling is such an interesting issue, with Apple's Mail application being the strangest of them all. The original NeXT Mail application was a pretty serious feature of NeXTStep, and maybe this is just carrying over into Mac OS X's marketing and planning. But I find it interesting that changes to the Mail application are sold as significant new features for Panther. I don't mind it - it's nice to have a decent Mail application as part of Panther's price. But what of those who don't want to use it, electing to use Entourage or MailSmith or any other mail application instead? (I used Entourage up to Mac OS X 10.2, as OS X's mail application was unusable for me up to that point). There's still a little rift in the Mac OS community about Apple's Sherlock 3 (bundled with OS X since 10.2) versus the similar (and faster and better and earlier) Watson from Karelia.
While I've already moved 2/3 of my machines to Panther, here's hoping that Safari 1.1 can find its way back to Jaguar.