It turns out the root cause of the problems I was seeing with Safari on Windows is that it simply doesn’t support signed applets. That’s pretty sad really. Apple seem to have implemented their own Java plugin instead of using the one that Sun provides (they’re using the Sun JRE via their plugin) and of course it’s missing most of the features you’d want from a Java plugin.

I’ll report it to Apple officially just as soon as someone fixes the bug reporter – it’s currently down. Perhaps there are too many people logging bugs against the new Safari and Leopard builds….