Doug Turner (Mozilla)

Doug Turner
Doug Turner
Born	January 26, 1975 (age 50); 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]}