Doug Turner (Mozilla)

Doug Turner
Born (1975-01-26) January 26, 1975
Mountain View, California
Residence Campbell, California
Alma mater San Jose State
Occupation Engineer
Employer Mozilla
Religion Catholic
Spouse(s) Marcie Turner
Children Dylan Turner
Madison Turner

Doug Turner is the ex-Director of Engineering at Mozilla Corporation and long-time contributor to Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation hired Turner in December 2004 to work full-time on mobile projects such as Minimo[1] and Mozilla Joey.[2] He was the Foundation's 12th hire.[3] Turner was previously employed by Netscape before the creation of the Mozilla Foundation.

Doug Turner invented Geolocation [4] on the Web,[5] Device Orientation on the web, and is a leader in device access.[6] Doug Turner invented Simple Push Notifications.[7][8] Push Notification are a way for application developers to send messages to their web applications.

Doug Turner was the maintainer of the now-defunct Minimo[9] project and worked on its successor Firefox for mobile. Doug Turner led the effort to rewrite the Firefox Mobile browser in order to improve performance, responsiveness, and memory usage.[10].

Doug Turner left Mozilla in September 2016.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Minimo ("mini Mozilla") project leaders interviewed". Linux For Devices. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
  2. ↑ "Mozilla's 'Joey' for simple mobile web". GigaOm. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
  3. ↑ "IRS 990 Filing" (PDF). Mozilla Foundation IRS Filing. Mozilla Foundation. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
  4. ↑ Geolocation
  5. ↑ "Firefox 3 and Device Access". Squio News. Squio News. Archived from the original on October 10, 2011. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
  6. ↑ "On Mozilla and the mobile web with Doug Turner". Mozilla Links Interview. Mozilla Links.
  7. ↑ Simple Push Notifications
  8. ↑ "Firefox". Mozilla Simple Push. Mozilla. Retrieved 1 Oct 2013.
  9. ↑ http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/FAQ.html#contributors
  10. ↑ "Native UI on Android". Mozilla Newsgroup. Mozilla.
  11. ↑ https://twitter.com/dougturner/status/770805656332869632

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