Remember Mozilla's very own mobile OS Boot to Gecko (B2G)? The company now has further details to share about its project, which is an attempt to build a browser-based operating system for mobile devices.
Brenden Eich, chief technology officer, Mozilla has tweeted that the Firefox developer will make a partner announcement for ts Boot to Gecko project at Mobile World Congress (MWC) later this month. 
"B2G is partnering up," Eich tweeted. "More at MWC," he added, referring to the MWC 2012. The company has not revealed so far as to who might be involved as part of its new alliance. However since the project already has developer support, it is expected that this could indicate vital operator, or even hardware manufacturer backing.
Though it's good to have Web developers as allies, it is also important to have strong partners--especially because Mozilla is preparing to give a demo of the platform's user experience at the MWC and B2G products are scheduled to arrive in the second quarter.
"A truly Web-based OS for mobile phones and tablets would enable the ultimate in user choice and developer opportunity, both from a technology and an ecosystem point of view," said Jay Sullivan, vice president--products of the plan at Mozilla. "Boot to Gecko is a project to build a OS that runs HTML5, JavaScript and CSS directly on device hardware without the need for an intermediate OS layer."
With the first sighting of the B2G's Gaia UI, the hopes are that the project might well meet its planned release target.
The B2G platform comprises three main layers--the bottom layer is called Gonk; it includes the Linux kernel, the hardware abstraction layer, the telephony stack and other low-level system components; the middle layer is the Gecko rendering engine, which has been improved with new APIs that expose device capabilities; and the top layer Gaia is the B2G user interface, which is built entirely with HTML and JavaScript.
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