Recently Opera moved away from Presto as its rendering engine and hitched its future to Blink, the rendering engine born from WebKit that powers Chrome. Yesterday Opera announced the release of its newest browser, Coast, built specifically for iOS tablets (I would say just iPads, but if my fridge gets an iOS tablet UI then I’d be wrong and will have paid too much for a fridge). there is very little that engages users in the product.Updated July 18, 2018, originally posted Septem0 Comments After they removed the first-run page informing about the latest changes etc. Or, to be more precise, not see the company at all, even as a interested hard core user. I hope the rest of the company is still doing great, but I must say that it is a bit of an eye opener to see the company from outside. I did have a veeery small part of Coast I designed, implemented and maintained the server side of Coast Card, the bookmark sharing built into Coast.

I quit my job at Opera 5 days before the rest of my team (Core Services and Operation, or what ever the name was at the end) was told they would shut down the development in Oslo.

My memory of that period is already a bit foggy An Android build was just around the corner, but now it will never happen. But I could be wrong, it's been a long time since I've spoken to anyone who was much around it.ĭemonstro: Currently working with one of the designers. Gsnedders: AFAIK, most of the people heavily involved in Coast left long before that, and there was some small skeleton team left. Kaysb: Opera removed of most of the developers positions in the Oslo office last year, and with that, killed development of things like Coast. If anybody is here looking for information about what happened to Opera Coast because Opera didn't post any news about it, here it is: Coast has been discontinued according to some ex-employees/business contacts/friends(?) on Reddit.

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