Well, not Safari as such, but WebKit - the rendering engine that powers Apple’s browser - has been ported to Windows Mobile by Californian developers Wake3.
A rendering engine interprets webpages and displays them to the screen. WebKit is a fast, lightweight engine that powers Mobile and Desktop Safari as well as the Konqueror browser found on many Linux systems.
The basic WebKit is a solid, fast & standards-compliant HTML wrangler, but sadly lacks the tap-to-zoom and smooth scrolling extensions that Apple added to Safari. As you can see from the video below the current alpha version makes heavy use of scroll bars to get around a big page.
Still, its early days yet and it would seem a shame to just slap a clunky interface on qualilty code like WebKit, so fingers crossed that Wake3 are working towards something special.
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