Gruber on OmniWeb 5 Beta

He says it all, and he says it well. John Gruber analyzes the recent beta release of OmniWeb 5, and hits all the important points. Some excerpts:

OmniWeb 5 has the potential to be a very big deal.
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Workspaces are simply the best new feature in OmniWeb 5. The way its preferences are configured out of the factory, however, you might not notice them (other than the new Workspace menu).
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OmniWeb has always supported a large assortment of application preferences. OmniWeb 5, however, introduces something revolutionary: per-site preferences. Site Preferences are more than just great. They’re fucking great.
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OmniWeb 5.0’s rendering engine is derived from WebCore v85, which corresponds to Safari 1.0, which shipped last June. By what I can only assume is coincidence, Apple today shipped Safari 1.2, which updates WebCore to v125. Thus, OmniWeb’s rendering engine is about eight months behind Safari’s, missing out not only on the improvements and fixes included in today’s 1.2 update, but also the version 1.1 update that shipped as part of Panther.
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OmniWeb 5.0b1 feels a bit slower than Safari.

If you're willing to risk a crash or two, go check out OmniWeb 5 beta!