Biography:Doug Turner (Mozilla)
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| Born | January 26, 1975 Mountain View, California |
| Alma mater | San Jose State |
| Occupation | Engineering Leader |
| Employer | Mozilla |
| 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][failed verification] on the Web,[5] Device Orientation on the web[citation needed], and is a leader in device access.[6][failed verification][unreliable source?] Doug Turner invented Simple Push Notifications.[7][failed verification][8][failed verification] 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[citation needed]. Doug Turner led the effort to rewrite the Firefox Mobile browser in order to improve performance, responsiveness, and memory usage.[10][failed verification]
Doug Turner left Mozilla in September 2016.[11]
References
- ↑ "Minimo ("mini Mozilla") project leaders interviewed". Linux For Devices. http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Minimo-mini-Mozilla-project-leaders-interviewed/.
- ↑ "Mozilla's 'Joey' for simple mobile web". GigaOm. http://gigaom.com/2007/05/16/mozillas-joey-for-simple-mobile-web/.
- ↑ "IRS 990 Filing". Mozilla Foundation IRS Filing. Mozilla Foundation. https://www.mozilla.org/foundation/documents/mf-2005-irs-form-990.pdf.
- ↑ Geolocation
- ↑ "Firefox 3 and Device Access". Squio News. Squio News. http://squio.nl/blog/2009/06/09/firefox-35-does-geolocation/.
- ↑ "On Mozilla and the mobile web with Doug Turner". Mozilla Links Interview. Mozilla Links. http://mozillalinks.org/2007/09/on-mozilla-and-the-mobile-web-with-doug-turner/.
- ↑ Simple Push Notifications
- ↑ "Firefox". Mozilla Simple Push. Mozilla. https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/SimplePush.
- ↑ "Minimo Help: Minimo FAQ". https://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/FAQ.html#contributors.
- ↑ "Native UI on Android". Mozilla Newsgroup. Mozilla. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.planning/_42Jv6KDg7s.
- ↑ "Twitter". https://twitter.com/dougturner/status/770805656332869632. [yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
External links
News & Media
- On Mozilla and the mobile web with Doug Turner — Interview with Doug Turner at Mozilla Links September 5, 2007
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