Doug Turner is the ex-Director of Engineering at
Mozilla Corporation
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and long-time contributor to Mozilla. The
Mozilla Foundation
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hired Turner in December 2004 to work full-time on mobile projects such as
Minimo and Mozilla Joey. He was the Foundation's 12th hire. Turner was previously employed by
Netscape
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before the creation of the Mozilla Foundation.
Doug Turner invented Geolocation on the Web, Device Orientation on the web, and is a leader in device access. Doug Turner invented Simple Push Notifications. 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 project and worked on its successor
Firefox for mobile
Firefox for Android is a web browser developed by Mozilla for Android smartphones and tablet computers. As with its desktop version, it uses the Gecko layout engine, and supports features such as synchronization with Firefox Sync, and add-ons ...
. Doug Turner led the effort to rewrite the Firefox Mobile browser in order to improve performance, responsiveness, and memory usage.
Doug Turner left Mozilla in September 2016.
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References
External links
Doug Turner's blogDoug Turner's Mozillian profile
News & Media
''On Mozilla and the mobile web with Doug Turner'' —
Interview
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with Doug Turner at Mozilla Links September 5, 2007
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Living people
American computer scientists
Computer systems engineers
Silicon Valley people
People from Mountain View, California
Mozilla developers
Free software programmers
Mozilla people
Open source people
1975 births
San Jose State University alumni