Apple today released its first developer preview of Safari for OS X, saying it is following in the footsteps of other major browser makers — all of whom provide early looks at their under-construction projects — to give website designers and app creators a continuous sneak peek.

Labeled “Safari Technology Preview,” the browser can be downloaded by anyone, not just Apple registered developers, and runs alongside the production-quality Safari on OS X. The preview will be updated via the Mac App Store every two weeks.

The Safari preview, Apple said, is a “more convenient and stable way” to run a developer-grade build than WebKit’s nightly iterations. WebKit is the open-source project that feeds code to Safari, and like other browser “channels” — such as Google’s Chrome Canary or Mozilla’s Firefox Nightly — features daily updates.

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