| Doug Turner | |
| Birth Date: | 26 January 1975 |
| Birth Place: | Mountain View, California |
| Spouse: | Marcie Turner |
| Children: | Dylan Turner Madison Turner |
| Occupation: | Engineering Leader |
| Employer: | Mozilla |
| Alma Mater: | San Jose State |
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] on the Web,[5] Device Orientation on the web, and is a leader in device access.[6] Doug Turner invented Simple Push Notifications.[7] [8] 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. Doug Turner led the effort to rewrite the Firefox Mobile browser in order to improve performance, responsiveness, and memory usage.[10]
Doug Turner left Mozilla in September 2016.[11]