on july 25, 2011, andreas gal, director of research at mozilla corporation, announced the "boot to gecko" project (b2g) on the mozilla.dev.platform mailing list. the project proposal was to "pursue the goal of building a complete, standalone operating system for the open web" in order to "find the gaps that keep web developers from being able to build apps that are in every way the equals of native apps built for the iphone, android, and windows phone 7." the announcement identified these work areas: new web apis to expose device and os capabilities such as telephone and camera, a privilege model to safely expose these to web pages, applications to prove these capabilities, and low-level code to boot on an android-compatible device.