Doug Turner (Mozilla)

Doug Turner
Born	(1975-01-26) January 26, 1975 (age 49) Mountain View, California
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]

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. 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. 16 February 2024.
7. Simple Push Notifications
8. "Firefox". Mozilla Simple Push. Mozilla. Retrieved 1 Oct 2013.
9. "Minimo Help: Minimo FAQ".
10. "Native UI on Android". Mozilla Newsgroup. Mozilla.
11. "Twitter". ^{[permanent dead link‍]}

External links

• Doug Turner's blog
• Doug Turner's Mozillian profile

News & Media

• On Mozilla and the mobile web with Doug Turner — Interview with Doug Turner at Mozilla Links September 5, 2007