Doug Turner (Mozilla)

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
Born	(1975-01-26) 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 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]