Safari on Windows vs. Safari on Mac

I'm building a website & want to learn more about Safari. I'm asking if there are any performance/usability issues if Safari is run on a Windows PC vs. a Mac? If there are any issues, can you please let me know what some common differences are between Safari on a Mac vs. Safari on Windows?
I appreciate your help.

Safari Windows is still at beta 3.03 so there are some huge differences for now
If you are an Apple Developer Connection member (free) you can get some access to more. there is also public WebKit project (core used for both versions) that you can use to test with and see what the current build status is.
http://webkit.org/

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