Doug Turner (Mozilla)
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Doug Turner | |
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Born | Mountain View, California |
January 26, 1975
Residence | Campbell, California |
Alma mater | San Jose State |
Spouse(s) | Marcie Turner |
Children | Dylan Turner Madison Turner |
Doug Turner is the 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][not in citation given] on the Web,[5] Device Orientation on the web[citation needed], and is a leader in device access.[6][not in citation given][unreliable source?] Doug Turner invented Simple Push Notifications.[7][not in citation given][8][not in citation given] 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][not in citation given] Doug Turner currently manages the Networking, Security, and Privacy teams at Mozilla.[citation needed]
Doug Turner lives in San Jose, California with his wife and two children[citation needed].
References
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- ↑ Geolocation
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- ↑ Simple Push Notifications
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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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