WASHINGTON - Mozilla is moving fast when being awared of the importance of a new breakthruogh in the mobile market. Mozilla's latest project even mentioned will create a new operating system.
Mozilla's latest project, Gecko is emphasized on OS for Smartphone
The project is itself communicated widely and openly by Mozilla with the announcement of the expansion of the search engine made by them, Gecko, the mobile platform is much broader. Gecko itself is a collaborative project between the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation, in the form of search engines that are driven into Firefox, Camino and Firefox browsers.
Launched by The Next Web is reported by Cnet, on Tuesday (07/26/2011), Mozilla itself give a name to this project with the title Boot to Gecko (2G), with a code name that will be communicated to the audience later.
"We have an open project that is named Boot to Gecko (B2G), which aims to complement each other platforms, which aims to equip the operating system with the open web, which will run on mobile phones and tablets," said Andreas Gal Mozilla developers.
Interestingly, Mike Shaver, Mozilla's vice president of Technical Strategy, said the application Boot to the Gecko is not using the Android SDK millik, but runs on apilakasi APP itself. Giving rise to speculation that, Mozilla will seriously work on its own operating system.
This API will also make the operating system supports important features such as mobile phones, SMS, camera, USB, Bluetooth, and support the processor chip.
He also said there are four areas for this development. One is the API for the web, which means building a prototype build APIs to expose the device and operating system capabilities for content.
