Wellcome To The HandyFox's Home

What's you can find here:

• HandyFox project development.
• HandyFox user support.
• HandyFox community forums.
• Repository of handy web applications.

HandyFox - What's it for?

• Handy web application enabler

  Nowadays, web has become an application platform, more and more traditional desktop applications are facing the strong competition from their web counterparts.
  But some limitations has obstructed the web applications to exploit the victory, following are some I had found and try to resolve with HandyFox:

  • Lack of lightweight style user interface - for applet kind of application (for e.g. a calculator), full web browser UI looks too redundant, a small semi-transparent floating pane looks better.
  • Not handy - that means you can only show/hide it's UI by minimize/restore the browser window, you can not make the browser window sticky (i.e. always keep topmost), and can not minimize it as a tray icon, and can not minimize it as a floating icon. After trying HandyFox, I believe you could understand this better.
  • Lack of UI state auto save/load capability - for e.g. after you close a calculator web application and restart it, it will appear at the last position and with the last size.
  • Not suitable for standby kind fo application - for e.g. an IM application should be able to work on the background and alam you about something happend.
  • ... Try HandyFox and you can find more :)

•  Handy web application promoter

  Backed with the web applications repository on this site, provide the users with a large collection of handy web applications which are categorized, carefully choosed, easy to extend by community, and easy to improve through user feedback.Yeah, just like what addons.mozilla.org does. 

HandyFox - Features list:

• Minimize as tray icon

  Minimize browser windows to system tray area and can restore them easily.

• Minimize as sticky pane

  Minimize browser windows as a small semi-transparent floating pane and the lightweight UI can even be customized further in many ways.

• Make a browser window sticky

  Toggle whether should a browser window always keep as a topmost levle window.

• Session saving

  You can save the state of the current sticky panes to a session file, and reload them latter just with a click on a desktop shortcut.

• Auto save/load stickypane state

  You can make a stickypane that bind to a specific URL to always remember it's last state.

• Alarm capability

  You can permit/deny the alarm function of a web application, i.e. whether you'd like it to popup message / playing sound when some event happend.

• HandyFox context menu items

  Let you perform handyfox related tasks with the extra menu items in the context menu of the browser.

• HandyFox bookmarks

  A HandyFox bookmark folder was created for you, there are links to the web application repository and bundled web applications, and when you add a bookmark under this folder, the linked web page will be loaded in a sticky pane when you select that bookmark item.

• Bundled handy web applications

  Handy calculator, weather and calendar web applications, try them and see whether HandyFox really make web applications more attractive.