Opera Releases Coast Browser For iPad With Revolutionary User Interface

Coast by Opera is intended to let you e-imagine Web browsing. Built from scratch for your tablet, Coast focuses on intuitive, swipe-gesture controls, which its developers contend allows you to focus on the web, not how you navigate it – “the browser that should have come with the iPad,” Opera claims.

Enjoy Powerful, Visual Search

• Pull down to type in a web address or search Google. Search results and site suggestions deliver your content swiftly.

• Personalize how you enter the webKeep your favorite sites at your fingertips by dragging them onto the home screen. Create your own space and enjoy quick access to your most-loved content.

Get the newest content, automatically

• Pages stay open and update silently in the background. You can easily swipe between sites and stay on top of their latest updates.

“Why is there a back button in iPad browsers”? Opera posits. “The iPad is, after all, designed for touch. You swipe, drag and use gestures to move around. Websites and apps today invite you to interact in new ways, but browsers have been stuck in a keyboard-and-mouse world. They felt outdated, and that bothered us. Why? Because we make browsers for a living. We are passionate about making the internet better.”

They thought they could do better. A lot better, which meant rethinking what a browser should be, and saw a great opportunity to build something from scratch. The result is Coast, a completely new browser, made simple and elegant and designed designed exclusively for the iPad. Every design element in Coast has been carefully crafted for iPad. It’s not just a mobile interface scaled up to fit a touchscreen, and there’s a lot of stuff you don’t see – technology that works under the hood, keeping you safe and secure.

Bookmarks are gone, replaced with iOS Home screen type icons. You can easily add or delete icons without leaving the page. There’s no Return button – just swipe back to where you were. A home screen search field displays three possible results as you type. To return directly to the home screen, tap a small button at the bottom center of the screen. To toggle between most recently visited sites, tap the button at the bottom right.

System requirements:
Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
Compatible with iPad

Free

App Store:
http://goo.gl/5HjWTP