By providing a cross browser AJAX widget, we allow shoppers to experience a more lively and interactive rich client interface, and save money at the same time," said Salima Mirza, creator and developer of Saletastic.com, as he announced today the launch of a cross browser AJAX Coupon Widget, just in time for the holiday shopping season.

"With the advent of AJAX," continued Mirza, "we wanted to use the technology to provide a more interactive interface to our website. We looked a lot of different AJAX APIs and ended up utilizing jQuery which we found to be very lightweight and robust in functionality."

The AJAX Coupon Widget, he said, enables shoppers to quickly and efficiently lookup coupons and promotions from their favorite online stores, while experiencing an integrated and interactive Rich Client Interface.

Saletastic.com aggregates online instant coupons and coupon codes from hundreds of brand name retailers. Coupons from retailers such as Target, Dell, Overstock, Office Depot, eBags and many more are available to use and instantly provide a discount at the click of a mouse.

Shoppers can launch the AJAX Coupon Widget by going to www.saletastic.com/ajax, Mirza noted. 

Submit Your March '08 Proposal Here - AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 East

It is a great time to be a front-end engineer! But is it easy yet to make AJAX applications that easily go offline? Are developers better off using an AJAX framework, a toolkit or just coding their own AJAX/JavaScript? Will JavaScript 2.0 be a success, or a dud? How can AJAX apps be made secure? When will AJAX development finally be easy?

Submissions on these and dozens of other topics have already begun streaming in to AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 East, being held in New York City on March 18-20, 2008.     

The Call for Papers is as always a 100% online process, found here. You will find details of tracks at that link too.
 
There will be another iPhone Track this year, chaired by Kevin Hoffman editor-in-chief of iPhone Developer's Journal. (Remember to select iPhone Track in the pull-down menu on the submissions page.)

Some other particularly hot topics on which the Conference Advisory Board invites submissions include:

• Enterprise-Grade AJAX
• Building RIAs on the iPhone SDK vs using AJAX
• HTML 5.0, XHTML 5.0, Web Forms 2.0
• Standardization plans for the top 4 browsers (Safari, IE, Firefox, Opera)
• Performance assessment for AJAX apps
• Unit/stress testing on an AJAX Application
• Writing complex UIs in JavaScript
• AJAX Security
• "MetaAjax"
• Enterprise Mashups
• AJAX tools for ASP.NET
• AJAX & JAVA
• What's next in Rich Internet Applications
• Adobe AIR vs AJAX vs Gears vs Flash vs Silverlight vs JavaFX vs GWT
• Beyond AJAX
• Open Source vs Proprietary apps
• AJAX push/Reverse AJAX/Comet
• The Event-Driven Web
• Ruby on Rails
• Web 2.0/Socia Applications
• Mobile AJAX
• AHAH / AJAH
• User Interface Patterns
• Risk and Best Practices
• The OpenAjax Hub
• Server-push communications using AJAX (Comet)
• JavaScript Object Oriented programming and design
• AJAX vs JavaFX vs Silverlight
• JavaScript 2.0
• Offline AJAX
• JavaScript libraries
• Using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) in AJAX
• Rails with AJAX
• Google Web Toolkit
• Open source AJAX frameworks
• YUI - Yahoo! User Interface Library
• AJAX tookits and frameworks
• Client/server framework for AJAX: jMaki 1.0
• AJAX .NET/Java/PHP frameworks
• Eclipse Rich AJAX Platform (RAP) 1.0
• AJAX Design Patterns
• Google AJAX APIs
• "User-Proofing" AJAX
• AJAX development with jQuery
• Silverlight & AJAX
• Performance tuning AJAX apps
• AJAX widgets
• Solving the broken browser problem
• Mobile AJAX
• Building RIAs beyond AJAX
  
• Submit Your March '08 Proposal Here