When the original Safari came out it was a little dodgy. I have to be careful these days when doing stuff to megalithomania, because Safari does everything that web standards say a browser should. I regularly have to fire up a PC (oh the shame of it!) and check new pages/features in IE6. Stuff like Firefox seem to get it right too, but IE 6 is aweful.
You should give the latest Safari a chance. It's a lot better than it used to be.
I've been thinking about writing a dashboard emulator for the PC, but frankly I can't be arsed and some other geek will do it sooner or later anyway :-) There is a way that PC folks can use them, though, but it's not as impressive as dashboard.