week4

Midterms are coming up and the pressure is on. I've recently found a beta heatmap app that is associated with google maps which will help my group in making the heat map for the late night restaurants search site. We're probably going to change our name since the midnightmunchies domain has already been taken.

As for the assignment, I'm thinking about making an art commission form, since I really would like to focus more on helping the group make the team webpage really superb. I think that it is okay for now create forms as long as you are only looking at the page locally, but if you were ever to put a page up on the internet with forms, most people should regex the form submissions to look out for things like: people putting in code like DROP TABLES, script tags calling other side (because they can hijack your page and inject code to break your page), and most html pages don't deal with characters like '<', '>', and '&' very well. As an extra precaution, if the user ever puts in important information like credit card numbers, the page should encrypt the information before sending it into the clear. Either using methods like a DES encryption box or XOR chaining. Because Javascript gives you so much power to access information, security is a big problem when it comes to handing sensitive information using Javascript (an AJAX). This is the reason why some pages include SSL support.