12/9/2023 0 Comments Coast by opera web browser![]() ![]() The thing that makes Coast stand out just from the very start is the complete lack of text captions: all the pages are represented in a card form and we only see their logos. We can also scroll to the left and to the right to see other things, like popular news websites or mail agents. Our journey begins with the main window of Coast, where we can see preset bookmarks that include YouTube, Google+, Digg, and some more useful stuff. Be sure to skip it if you don't want any spoilers (yeap, that is a spoiler alert!). Now, for those of you who are still reluctant to give Coast a go, I'm about to describe its main features in the very next paragraph. Also, the Coast team sprinkled a few very catchy animations to accompany your gestures as you navigate around pages and bookmarks. It is so extremely effortless to catch on, and I think the trick to that is the shameless exploitation of the iPad's touch mechanics. I encourage you to do the same, you will not regret it. I actually had a chance to play with Coast just as it came out, without any clue on how one should use it. With Coast, you won't ever see the conventional address bar or your bookmarks sitting at the top of the page wherever you go no, you will be enjoying the Web in full screen. And now we can finally see and enjoy what the team has come up with. That last concept alone made the whole idea worth implementing, since it sounds like a more intuitive, even on the surface, approach to Intertnet surfing. This made Huib Kleinhout, the project leader of Coast, wonder why that's how it is and finding no answer, he felt like it was time to change things a bit and asked for a team to develop a new browser, something that would reinvent the tablet browsers and replace the usual PC-like design language and interfaces, instead displaying pages as applications. Up to now, tablet web browsers have been basically the very same browsers we use on the PC, allowing for a few quirks of tablet designs. The Norwegian team behind the well-known and respected by many Opera browser recently came out with a pleasant surprise for tablet owners: they announced a whole new product, a web browser called Coast, designed specifically for the iPad. Simple and intuitive, it’s major problem is going to be changing people’s attitudes to browsing.Coast: a new browser for tablets by Opera Verdict:Ĭoast by Opera offers an intriguing glimpse into one possible future of web browsing on a tablet. Bringing music to life: tiles with music or video playing come to life, and you can easily control your favorite music sites from the lock screen. ![]() Quickly open PDFs in other apps such as iBooks, your default PDF reader or Dropbox Fast back: going back is now instant in many cases Easy wallpaper customization: just long press on the home screen to choose a new wallpaper or an image from your photo roll It will be interesting to see if it becomes a success. There’s also the question of whether there’s a demand for such a revolution in web browsing, but at least Coast has the benefit of being incredibly simple to pick up and use. Early indications are that performance isn’t quite on a par with Safari, while others are looking for more privacy controls (mainly an option to wipe all cached data) as well as the ability to transfer bookmarks and other settings from other browsers. Unlike Opera’s other iOS browser, Opera Mini, Coast utilises the WebKit browser engine used by Safari. Tap this and they’ll appear as thumbnails, with two further buttons to investigate: the ‘I’ button provides a safety rating for the site (Coast will also provide a more visible alert for sites it deems as unsafe), while the Share button lets you tweet, Facebook, Message, email or print the page, plus add it to your home screen as a favourite. Recent sites are also accessible via a button in the bottom right-hand corner. This is also where you’ll find the unified Address and Search bar for locating more content. The aim of Coast is to minimise the user interface, so only two buttons are ever-present on screen: a Home button that takes you to a home screen similar to the iOS home screen, with favourite and recently visited sites represent by icons, nine to a screen (swipe left to reveal more). So out go the browser toolbars and in come navigation by swiping left to go back and right to go forwards. Now Norwegian browser developer Opera has decided to see if it’s able to reinvent browsing on the iPad with this brand new browser.įire up Coast for the first time and an instructional video briefly reveals how the app works – by touch and swipe wherever possible. ![]() While Safari works fine on the iPad, it’s still a little clunky because it’s practically identical to using a browser on your desktop or laptop. No one has really cracked browsing on a touchscreen. ![]()
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