Monday, August 1, 2011

Android upcoming new competitor from Mozilla

(AP) - Mozilla has announced plans to launch a new mobileoperating system called Boot to Gecko. After birth, the OSmay be stunned competitors with Google’s OS Android andChrome.
Mozilla, the software company known for its Firefox webbrowser, will build a new mobile operating system with features such as web-based operating system OS of GoogleChrome.
Reportedly, Mozilla will take the tablet, smartphone-centricoperating system like Android or IOS. The project isexperimental software named Boot to Gecko (B2G) andfocuses specifically on expanding the applications based onHTML5.
“Mozilla believe the web platform can break the monopoly,arrange for an independent provider of application development” - Andreas Gal, one of the leading researchers ofMozilla wrote in a notice of B2G project for the developers - ”tomake the open web technology as a better basis for futureapplications on mobile and desktop, we need to continue to promote wrapper the web to a much larger aperture. “According to Gal, which is the goal of B2G.

Building Mozilla-based mobile platform engine of Firefox
The project is currently in phase B2G ”pregnancy,” so littleinformation about Mozilla’s new operating system was revealed.
According technology Digitaltrends, the original developerMozilla will build Android B2G thanks to low-level code andplans to develop a custom user interface as well as arranginga new application under the support of the Gecko engine,processing engine is used for the Firefox browser. However, once construction of B2G to the end, Mozilla plans to useAndroid source code at least possible.
Like Android, B2G is an open source operating system.Mozilla said the entire development which will be implementedin the form of open, fully transparent and will be shared as soon as they are written in real time rather than waiting untilconstruction is complete . This is different from most existingopen source software is Android, Chrome and Firefox.
SOurce:thegioiandroid.com

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