I've been working for some time now on some stuff using Kevin Roth's excellent Cross-Browser Rich Text Editor, at
http://www.kevinroth.com/rte/demo.htm (try it in Mozilla or FireFox for best effect). When Safari 1.2 came out, I noticed that it no longer worked properly; rather than display the standard textarea (since Safari doesn't do Midas), it tried to draw the Midas-based editor, which of course didn't work.
Kevin Roth fixed the problem a couple of days ago, but I was trying to figure out what the problem actually was, and I'd had an awful time of it, because I figured that something must have changed in the User-Agent string. That wasn't the case, though.
The problem comes from the fact that Safari advertises itself to JavaScript as being capable of dealing with document.designMode, even though it's not. This seems like an odd bug to surface only in a recent version of Safari... unless something was being done on designMode, and the 'document.designMode' property was enabled by mistake, before the rest was ready.
Could it be that this work is actually taking place? We know that Hyatt is interested in implementing Midas support; he's said that before. Is it possible that the work was started in Safari 1.2, but isn't yet finished? Will we finally have our creamy rich-text goodness in Safari?