For the web devs, Safari‘s WebKit has been updated, providing some great new tools for writing the web and debugging Safari issues. They also wrote up a great overview of the features.

Together with Firebug the Venkman Toolbar for Firefox, that’s a great set of tools.

Now if IE would just join the bandwagon and offer us more than “null is null or not an object”!

I think that the history of user-agent string about sums up the state web in a single article. And you don’t need to be a programmer to appreciate the hilarity of that.

Nor do you need to be a theologian to draw parallels between what we’ve done with browsers and what we’d munge as a people if we were in charge of the entire universe : (