Doug Turner (Mozilla)

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
Born (1975-01-26) January 26, 1975
Mountain View, California
Alma materSan Jose State
OccupationEngineer
EmployerMozilla
Spouse(s)Marcie Turner
ChildrenDylan Turner
Madison Turner

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. Archived from the original on 28 January 2013. 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. https://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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