Joe Hewitt is a

software programmer A computer programmer, sometimes referred to as a software developer, a software engineer, a programmer or a coder, is a person who creates computer programs — often for larger computer software. A programmer is someone who writes/create ...

who is best known for his work on the

Firefox Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current ...

web browser and related software development tools like Firebug and

DOM Inspector DOM Inspector (DOMi) is a web developer tool created by Joe Hewitt and was originally included in Mozilla Application Suite as well as versions of Mozilla Firefox prior to Firefox 3 Mozilla Firefox 3.0 is a version of the Firefox web browser ...

Education

His first project took place while still attending

Hopatcong High School Hopatcong High School is a four-year comprehensive high school, comprehensive state school, public Secondary education in the United States, high school serving students in ninth grade, ninth through twelfth grades from Hopatcong, New Jersey, Ho ...

Career

Hewizz created the website Feff World with Douglas Palermo. From 2000 to 2003, he worked on UI programming at

Netscape Netscape Communications Corporation (originally Mosaic Communications Corporation) was an American independent computer services company with headquarters in Mountain View, California and then Dulles, Virginia. Its Netscape web browser was onc ...

. Subsequently, he worked on AOL's Boxely UI project, which renders software such as AIM Triton and AOL Explorer. In July 2007, Hewitt led the release of the iUI user interface library which greatly simplified Safari development for Apple's iPhone. He has been working on

Parakey Parakey is a web-based computer user interface proposed by Firefox contributors Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt. Ross describes it as "a Web operating system that can do everything an OS can do." The idea behind it is to make image, video, and writi ...

with

Blake Ross Blake Aaron Ross (born June 12, 1985) is an American software engineer who is best known for his work as the co-creator of the Mozilla Firefox internet browser with Dave Hyatt. In 2005, he was nominated for ''Wired'' magazine's top Rave Award, R ...

. Parakey was acquired by

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in July 2007. In August 2007, he wrote the iPhone-specific version of

. He was responsible for creating Facebook’s iPhone app, which as of 2009 was the most downloaded iPhone app of all time. In November 2009, Hewitt ceased development on the application, citing Apple policies. In January 2009, he released the open-source library for iPhone developers Three20. In 2011, Hewitt left

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Interview with Joe Hewitt
Living people 1978 births People from Hopatcong, New Jersey American computer programmers Engineers from New Jersey Facebook employees {{US-engineer-stub