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Swift is a Windows-browser based on the WebKit rendering-engine used in Apple’s Safari. the idea is basically to give Windows-based web-developers a comfortable way to write cross-platform-compatible HTML, CSS & JavaScript. however, the current alpha-release of Swift isn’t mature enough to replace native testing on Safari: form-elements aren’t supported completely, pages render slightly different than on Safari, and the app seems to have a tendency to crash on complex documents. Windows-developers should keep an eye on Swift’s evolvement, a stable release could ease their lives consideably.

as reported on Ajaxian, Webkit - the browser-engine powering Safari, Mail and other OS X applications - has finally received an integrated JavaScript-debugger called Drosera. since Safari’s implementation of JavaScript is differing from Firefox and others in some spots, this will ease life of many developers greatly.

If you’re a Mac user and haven’t been intrigued by Firefox or more lately by Flock, I also recommend checking out the Safari Enhancer for a better user-experience with Apples own browser.