Mozilla working on a smartphone OS for web apps

"The folks behind the popular Firefox web browser have announced a new project called Boot to Gecko, or B2G. The idea is to build an operating system designed to run web apps and only web apps. It will be based on the same operating system kernel as Android, but B2G won’t run Android apps. Instead Mozilla hopes to built tools that allow third party developers to access the phone’s telephone, camera, USB, Bluetooth and other hardware from web apps.

The whole thing will be built on open web standards — which makes sense coming from a company known for making web browsers. If the web succeeds as a platform, so does Mozilla."

Source: Mobiputing