Doug Turner is the ex-Director of Engineering at

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and long-time contributor to Mozilla. The

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hired Turner in December 2004 to work full-time on mobile projects such as

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and Mozilla Joey. He was the Foundation's 12th hire. Turner was previously employed by

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before the creation of the Mozilla Foundation. Doug Turner invented Geolocation on the Web, Device Orientation on the web, and is a leader in device access. Doug Turner invented Simple Push Notifications. Push Notification are a way for application developers to send messages to their web applications. Doug Turner was the maintainer of the now-defunct

project and worked on its successor

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. Doug Turner led the effort to rewrite the Firefox Mobile browser in order to improve performance, responsiveness, and memory usage. Doug Turner left Mozilla in September 2016.

References

External links

Doug Turner's blog

Doug Turner's Mozillian profile

News & Media

''On Mozilla and the mobile web with Doug Turner''
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with Doug Turner at Mozilla Links September 5, 2007 {{DEFAULTSORT:Turner, Doug Living people American computer scientists Computer systems engineers Silicon Valley people People from Mountain View, California Mozilla developers Free software programmers Mozilla people Open source people 1975 births