Great idea. I like the ability to share with friends.
Some improvements/feature suggestions:
1. It will be helpful to have an easier UI to modify the css/js - something like what the stylebot chrome plugin does.
2. This gets into a nice place for discussing web sites within a team. I can imagine this tool being really helpful for Marketing teams.
3. The above might ask for features like the ability to replace some text, highlight other text easily, and add comments. You might want to consider something like WebNotes (http://www.webnotes.net/) for feature additions.
4. Similarly the above suggests charging options based on team size: publicly visible or 1 person teams would be free, but with larger organizations you can have a higher price point. Also paid users might be able to get get benefits like saving pages for more than 2-3 months and being able to create a report of the work that they did (for their bosses/clients).
I've given some thought to that - it uses the same mechanisms as jsfiddle (different domains) and you can view the haxx code. As such CSRF should be fine and SSL isn't supported on public haxxlies.
I however, wouldn't recommend signing in through the service :)
How do you intend to handle legal matters? News sites fiercely defend their content so if I make a haxxly of CNN news site and remove all ads would you be liable and forced to remove that haxxly site?
In this day and age there's nothing to stop people running Adblock if they really don't want to see ads. This would be easier in the longer term for the person anyway (haxxly proxying to CNN is slower than going to CNN directly w/ Adblock).
Regardless, I'll cross that bridge if/when it comes up. Site terms are here: http://www.haxx.ly/terms
The actual code for that haxxly doesn't do anything (well - it attempts to load jquery and sets the font tag to arial). Check out http://www.haxx.ly/h/28 for a quick example.
The 406 is the view counter just reporting you've viewed the page. The script error was an error on that particular haxxly.
This is a great idea, although for productive use I'd prefer that as a browser extension or bookmarklet, rather than having to visit a foreign website (haxx.ly). On the other hand, that separate website is a comfortable way to show my results to others.
I'm not sure but, if this all sends requests from a single domain; it will be treated as a visitor-tracking-malfunction issue. I wouldn't like that if I'd have ads or related stuff like that in my site customized and viewed through here.
What kind of pro plans do you have in mind for this? I could use this for demonstrating slight UI changes of a design, but I would want it to be private.
Yep. Private plans + a whole raft of other features I didn't have time to implement (SSL support, regex substitution on html, basic auth support etc etc). Any other suggestions?
Google Chrome on Win 7, 64 bit - all pages report "not found". Also behind a companies squid proxy if that might have something to do with it.
Make it work please! It's cool idea, good for showing some design changes without having to change anything in the original page, not even a detection if someone wants to see the new preview etc.
Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey works great if you just want to modify something for yourself, but I have yet to find a good way to share that with others (that are less technical). This would be a great resource to show a handful of small changes to a bunch of people by sending them a link and having it be as easy as that, though.
The haxxlys run in an iframe on a separate domain to haxx.ly (similar to jsfiddle) to prevent you from hacking haxxly with haxxly.
You could use it to phish with but there is a giant banner saying this website is from haxxly and is altered. Also you can view the code yourself and flag it if it's bad.
Some improvements/feature suggestions:
1. It will be helpful to have an easier UI to modify the css/js - something like what the stylebot chrome plugin does.
2. This gets into a nice place for discussing web sites within a team. I can imagine this tool being really helpful for Marketing teams.
3. The above might ask for features like the ability to replace some text, highlight other text easily, and add comments. You might want to consider something like WebNotes (http://www.webnotes.net/) for feature additions.
4. Similarly the above suggests charging options based on team size: publicly visible or 1 person teams would be free, but with larger organizations you can have a higher price point. Also paid users might be able to get get benefits like saving pages for more than 2-3 months and being able to create a report of the work that they did (for their bosses/clients).