Discussion on Google Reader Preview Enhanced (patched by bryantsai) | Userscripts.org

Ctrl click does not work in OS X, replied by Daniel Brewer

Daniel Brewer — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:14:03 +0000

When you press ctrl click this activates the right mouse button in OS X rather than opening the feed item in a new tab. To fix this I changed:

link.addEventListener('click', function(e) { if (!e.ctrlKey) { previewMouseClick(e); } }, false);

link.addEventListener('click', function(e) { if (!e.metaKey) { previewMouseClick(e); } }, false);

Maybe this could be changed conditionally in the script?

print page suggestion, replied by ekbworldwide

ekbworldwide — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:40:40 +0000

I just subscribed to feeds at sciam.com

Scientific American: Science News RSS Feed
http://www.sciam.com/page.cfm?section=rss

Preview doesn't work.

An example the "Global" feed

Scientific American - Global
http://rss.sciam.com/ScientificAmerican-Global

An item in the fedd

Artificial uterus could save grey nurse shark from extinction
http://rss.sciam.com/ScientificAmerican-Global

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:28 PM

Plenty of species have been observed eating their own young. Still other species see their young competing for resources, so only the strongest survive. But the grey nurse shark (Carcharias taurus) takes it a step further: its young have a tendency to eat each other, in utero. 
[More]
http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=artificial-uterus-could-save-grey-n-2009-02-18

The site feed could be need hacked so that the "[More]" link becomes the item feed link. If you provided a handful of hacks - to large sites - then people could use that code as a template for fixing minor sites with Preview problems.

print page suggestion, replied by ekbworldwide

ekbworldwide — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:34:15 +0000

Example at The Washington Post

Three kinds of links for a feed items.

article: GM, Chrysler Seek Billions More in Aid

#1 - feed item link inside greader - the same as from The Washington Post
http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032400102_xml/~3/306Xu3G_AVE/AR2009021703101.html

#2 - web page
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/17/AR2009021702510.html

#3 - print friendly page "_pf" is added before ".html"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/17/AR2009021702510_pf.html

The Washington Post spreads articles out over many pages so I made a yahoo pipe that uses a regex to rewrite the item links to point to #3 (print friendly pages). Grabbing a feed and making it a live bookmark works. I click on a item link and go directly to #3. But in greader - if your script is enabled or disabled - greader undoes the rewrite and makes item links as they were: #1.

How about this idea: "somehow" (Don't ask me how.) give an option to force item links to obey a user given regex and also make the original item link the first line of the item description.

That way:

= inside greader - #3 could be used for preview

= clicking on the link goes to #3

= the original link is still there to go to #2.

Upgraded to base on Julien's v1.07g, replied by Bryan Tsai

Bryan Tsai — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:47:31 +0000

This should work again as of Jan 2009.

Archived Comments, replied by Brendan Kidwell

Brendan Kidwell — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:16:29 +0000

I can confirm that it's broken now. It was working a week or two ago. Google must have changed the client-side app code that this script interacts with.

Archived Comments, replied by Jakkers

Jakkers — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:55:27 +0000

This script seems to be exactly what I'm looking for, but I cant get it to work properly. The preview button is there, but nothing happens when I click it. Ordinary Google Reader Preview works (the non-enhanced version), but neither this or the enhanced one does... any suggestions?

Archived Comments, replied by NullPointer

NullPointer — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:52:27 +0000

It's very useful. thanks:)

Archived Comments, replied by Brendan Kidwell

Brendan Kidwell — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:04:10 +0000

Thanks! This works great for high traffic feeds with empty summaries like Craigslist.org.

Archived Comments, replied by Bryan Tsai

Bryan Tsai — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:41:29 +0000

I didn't like the lost of the ability to click on the entry title to open the actual site content (either in a new tab background-ly or just go to the site). So I added small change, hold Ctrl key while clicking the title would do that. The original preview behavior (when clicking normally on title) is still there.

BTW, I've modified the name of this script to be more obvious to new users. So if you have installed it before, uninstall the previous one (named GPE-bryantsai) first and then re-install it.

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:05:57 +0000

The following is an archive of comments made before threaded discussions was implemented (November 16th, 2008)