“I was never quite happy with how apps and browsers kind of got in the way of the content. “Like everyone who owns an iPhone, I’ve often picked it up when waiting for something or someone,” says Huib Kleinhout, Product Manager on the Opera Coast project at Opera Software, who explained to us in the past about how his team went about designing the browser. It’s been designed by the same team which did the tablet version. Coast does way more than merely migrating the lessons learned from desktop computers to a tablet.After seeing success with the Coast browser designed for the iPad, Opera has now released it for the iPhone.Ĭoast for iPhone brings the same casual browsing experience that we saw on the iPad for a smaller screen.

Tablets have a lot of screen real estate, and we thought it was about time to put it to good use. Coast displays webpages the way they deserve to be shown.ĭesigning for iPad means rethinking everything. I dare say that this is the best browsing experience on tablets anywhere,” says Lars Boilesen, CEO, Opera Software. When creating Coast, the designers chose to put content, not the browser, front and center on the whole screen. Finally we have a browser your iPad deserves. “The team behind Coast have truly outdone themselves in this project.

A single button takes you to the home screen, and another shows the sites you have recently visited. Sites are displayed in nearly full-screen mode. Instead of opening up pages into tabs, you can swipe through cards showing images of recent sites, in a manner much similar to iOS 7. All navigation is done by swiping the way you naturally would on an iPad, just like in a good iPad app. Huib Kleinhout, the head of the Coast project says Coast is Opera’s first attempt at building a new tablet-optimized browser.Ĭoast is a completely designed-for-iPad browser, made to fit tablet users in every respect. Elements such as back and forward buttons are gone from Coast. According to TechCrunch, Coast by Opera is “the browser that should have come with the iPad”. Opera has today released a brand new web browser called Coast, which is based on iOS’ WebKit engine and built exclusively for the iPad.

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