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Dave Hyatt writes about tabbed browsing. Here's just the beginning:

"I've seen a lot of comments in various Mac forums where people have claimed that "Dave Hyatt said he doesn't like tabbed browsing!" or "Dave Hyatt hates tabbed browsing!" I find these posts perplexing, because I never said any such thing, and of course the opposite is true. I love tabbed browsing. I implemented tabbrowser in the Mozilla trunk. I implemented tabbed browsing in Chimera. I implemented the version used in Phoenix. Given how many times I've implemented it, I'm amazed that people would think that I am not a tabbed browsing devotee"

This is interesting. Its kind of a tip off about tabbed browsing in Safari. I'm sure Dave's opinions would have some influence or he wouldn't say an opinion like this on tabbed browsing then have it implemented a different way by the other Safari engineers. That would make itl ook like they don't have a common goal. Most of this has already come to pass with the cough hypothetical v62. One thing I really want in tabbed browsing is opening tabs from other apps such as Mail or NetNewsWire. I can't stand having a bunch of windows open when I open things from either of those programs. That is one of the reasons why I use the freshly re-named, Camino