Don Melton, an ex-Apple engineering director, has given a little bit of insight into the secretiveness of his former employer.  He’s written a great blog post about how he was tasked with building Safari and keeping it a secret.

I think that the most interesting thing about this is that he hired David Hyatt, who had worked on Mozilla and Netscape, and that little tidbit made it to Macrumors at the time. He even blogged about it, although didn’t say what he was working on.