Muthukumar Rajamani : Interaction Designer/Manager, Bangalore

Product Experience Management,User Reseach at Cisco Systems, India

Archive for the 'Code is Poetry' Category

Front-End Performance Optimization through CSS sprites

Among many techniques used to reduced the No. of requests to the servers, CSS sprites is a cool one. This simple CSS technique involves clubbing multiple images as one and uses ” background-position:” to define the image display. Here’s a cool CSS Sprite generation tool

8 October 2007 at 06:03 - Comments
good tool muthu! Really this works out.
9 October 07 at 01:00

AHAH!

AHAH = Asynchronous HTML and HTTP is a subset of AJAX without the X(XML)

Update web pages dynamically using JavaScript and XHTML, instead of XML. Like in AJAX, use XMLHTTP to raise a Request. The state-change of the request when the Response is received is directly passed on to a [...]

14 June 2007 at 07:17 - Comments

How to load a HTML file into a Div

Used an “onclick function” and successfully loaded a HTML file into a Div. JavaScript: onclick=function(){ var el=document.getElementById(”x”) el.innerHTML=”iframe src=\”http://muthuonline.com/about_muthu\” >” < div id="x"> Wish there was an easier method like having a src for a div. However had issues setting the iframe width. After getting this done, i was told that iframe kinda outdated. Next, i guess i [...]

8 June 2007 at 04:03 - Comments
hi, i'm working on an end-user programmiong experiment project called "The Returnable Project". Right now ,you can load content into div's, ...
23 July 07 at 21:05
oops...here's the link http://returnable.org Do check out the demo's there.
23 July 07 at 21:07

How to show a Div & hide the rest, simultaneously

Encountered an interesting issue while working on the “Accordion Menu” Problem : Multiple Divs get thrown up, when multiple links get clicked. The hierarchy of these Divs is determined by the Z-index. Divs with lower Z-index value, get hidden behind Divs with higher Z-index value. Either the navigation has to be “Modal/ Hub [...]

6 June 2007 at 08:31 - Comments

Look Ma, All App and No Code!

YUI simply rocks! Yahoo also serves up code for FREE! ( But err…. if you use code directly from Yahoo’s servers, you are likely to encounter some latency) Here’s a wierd idea on what Yahoo can do next with YUI… Come up with http://designer.yahoo.com/yui Build an WYSIWYG IDE (could be web based) based on YUI, [...]

29 May 2007 at 08:48 - Comments
Umesh, just signed up for Popfly, guess it would take a while for them to grant me access. Did you ...
30 May 07 at 04:20
Yes i just got an invitation and granted access
30 May 07 at 08:54