Doug Turner (Mozilla)

Doug Turner
Personal details
Born January 26, 1975 (1975-01-26) (age 37)
Mountain View, California
Spouse(s) Marcie Turner
Children Dylan Turner
Madison Turner
Residence San Jose, California
Alma mater San Jose State
Profession Engineer, Mozilla
Religion Catholic

Doug Turner is an employee of the 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 on the Web,[4] Device Orientation on the web, and is a leader in device access.[5]

Doug Turner was the maintainer of the now-defunct Minimo project and now works on its successor Firefox for mobile

References

  1. ^ "Minimo ("mini Mozilla") project leaders interviewed". Linux For Devices. http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Minimo-mini-Mozilla-project-leaders-interviewed/. Retrieved 4 November 2011. 
  2. ^ "Mozilla’s ‘Joey’ for simple mobile web". GigaOm. http://gigaom.com/2007/05/16/mozillas-joey-for-simple-mobile-web/. Retrieved 4 November 2011. 
  3. ^ "IRS 990 Filing". Mozilla Foundation IRS Filing. Mozilla Foundation. http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/documents/mf-2005-irs-form-990.pdf. Retrieved 1 November 2011. 
  4. ^ "Firefox 3 and Device Access". Squio News. Squio News. http://squio.nl/blog/2009/06/09/firefox-35-does-geolocation/. Retrieved 1 November 2011. 
  5. ^ "On Mozilla and the mobile web with Doug Turner". Mozilla Links Interview. Mozilla Links. http://mozillalinks.org/2007/09/on-mozilla-and-the-mobile-web-with-doug-turner/. 

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