That’s how most people use their iPads: Sitting on the couch or waiting room or bed, reading the news, checking social media updates.” “We’re not offering a browser with the best compression or one that has the most features-we’re offering a browser that just fits really well with the iPad and how you use the iPad. Rather than the user actively checking the reputation of a site, Coast will pop up and warn you if something’s fishy. Coast also takes a new approach to safety-they’ve put a lot of work “under the hood” so that security checks take place in the background. Previously visited websites are easily accessed at the bottom right corner swiping through page history becomes much more visual (as opposed to a drop down list of text). The search bar is easily accessible, and sites, words and even domain names are suggested. It’s not natural to type on an iPad, so Coast makes sure very little typing is involved.
Most of the experience is funneled down to swipes and taps for the smoothest browsing for example, instead of using forward or backward buttons, you just swipe left or right. Navigating Coast is intuitive, and it took only seconds to get the hang of. Immediately noticeable is that the browser offers more space to use on the iPad screen. Everything has been stripped-URL fields, forward and back buttons, the settings bar, tabs-which leaves more room for the actual website content. This “Speed Dial” is a collection of favorited sites, which are presented as visually appealing icons rather than conventional text-only bookmarks. At first launch, Coast resembles an iPhone home-screen in a familiar way. “Dare to challenge, and dare to think big,” Kleinhout says, “That’s the kind of culture at Opera.” He locked himself and a small team of designers and developers into a meeting room and focused on one main goal: “I wanted to make something for the internet as it is today.”Ī year and a half later, the team finished Coast, and Cool Hunting recently had the opportunity to preview and test the app. As soon as he presented the project to a higher manager, it was an immediate green light. Kleinhout started developing this concept on his own, in secret, for several months, giving up vacations and evenings. All of those are remaining from the old times.” Kleinhout wanted to break the traditional method of scaling-down or scaling-up browsers, and create something specifically for the iPad. It was time to start ditching old legacies, the elements of the browser that are just historical, from the address field to the back and forward buttons and bookmarks. Not only Opera but all browsers-Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer-they all very much look the same. It was a simple idea that suddenly struck one of Opera’s designers, Huib Kleinhout: “I realized that we were kind of stuck in the browser world. Each key feature is cleverly demoed in a small looping animation and just a handful of words, in what complements Apple’s devices 100%.But building a browser for a tablet from scratch wasn’t planned in advance by the company.
Newcomers are greeted by a cool introduction guide on their first launch of the browser. New features available for both iPhone and iPad include “Stuff we like,” which Opera describes as “suggestions for discovering popular sites from where you are and interesting sites to waste time on” (this shows up in search before you start your query), more nifty wallpapers, automatic iCloud syncing, and a new design for context menus. In version 3.00, iPhone customers are introduced for the first time to a simplified home screen, visual search with animated text suggestions and seamless transition to Google, redesigned recent sites, a share menu so awesome you’ll want it across the entire OS, and even some safety information. Yes, although Apple did a fair job with the latest version of Safari, it’s only half baked.Ĭoast by Opera is now called Opera Coast. Now that Coast is also available for iPhone, you can finally set aside Chrome, Puffin, Mercury, and even Apple’s Safari, and just surf the web exactly how you should. The realization comes when you go back to using a normal browser, which suddenly seems cumbersome and unappealing. Initially made for iPads, Coast was already a brilliant Internet surfing tool featuring touch-centric controls and an interface so intuitive you’d start to wonder how you lived without it.
COAST BY OPERA WEB BROWSER SOFTWARE
Norway-based Opera Software ASA has just released an iPhone-native version of the browser and it completely tarnishes every other browser in every possible aspect. If you’re struggling to find a decent web browsing experience for your iPhone and can’t, look no further than Opera Coast.
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