Doug Turner | |
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Born | |
Alma mater | San Jose State |
Occupation | Engineering Leader |
Employer | Mozilla |
Spouse | 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]
Doug Turner | |
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Born | |
Alma mater | San Jose State |
Occupation | Engineering Leader |
Employer | Mozilla |
Spouse | 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]