Joe Hewitt
Programmer behind Firebug and the DOM Inspector, early Firefox work, and Facebook's first iPhone app.
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- Joe Hewitt is an American programmer best known for his work on the Firefox browser and its developer tools Firebug and DOM Inspector.
- He did UI programming at Netscape from 2000 to 2003, then worked on AOL's Boxely.
- His startup Parakey, with Blake Ross, was acquired by Facebook in July 2007, where he wrote Facebook's iPhone app and the Three20 library; he stopped work on the app in November 2009 over Apple's policies and left Facebook in 2011.
Key facts
- Born
- 19781
- Netscape
- UI programming from 2000 to 2003; then AOL's Boxely UI project, behind AIM Triton and AOL Explorer1
- Known for
- Firefox, and the developer tools Firebug and DOM Inspector1
- iUI
- Led the release of the iUI library for iPhone web apps in July 20071
- Parakey, built with Blake Ross, was acquired by Facebook in July 2007; he wrote Facebook's iPhone app from August 2007, stopped work on it in November 2009 citing Apple's policies, and left Facebook in 20111
- Three20
- Open-source library for iPhone developers, released in January 20091
Roles
Before
Part of until 2011
Meta (joined when Facebook acquired Parakey; wrote Facebook's iPhone app) source on Meta
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