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by rkwz 5436 days ago
Sensationalist title. The Ars article[1] was much better.

A foundational goal of the B2G project is to explore and remedy areas where current Web standards are insufficient for building modern mobile applications. Instead of haphazardly grafting vendor-specific markup or extensions into the application runtime, Mozilla will seek to propose new standards to address the challenges that emerge during development.

Nicely aligns with their main aim of promoting openness, innovation and opportunity on the web.[2]

[1] http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/07/mozilla-eyes...

[2] http://www.mozilla.org/about/mission.html