Forget Surfing, This App Coasts the Web

While computers have changed drastically over the past 20 years, morphing from big boxes to svelte laptops, touch-screen tablets and smartphones, the Web browsers we use on them have looked largely the same.

Sure, you can take a desktop Web browser, optimize it for a smaller screen and add some touch features — as the most commonly used mobile browsers do. But the results are often inelegant, because the things you do on a laptop or desktop computer tend to be different from the things you do on a tablet or smartphone. And chances are you’re not using a traditional keyboard and mouse, the tools that desktop-browser makers could count on you to have. Read more...