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Jasper's Google Reader subscribe

v0.2 - Another Google Reader subscriber. This one was designed to use as little screen size as possible. It only adds a feed icon in the top right corner. On mouse over the subscribe links are shown.

I was using Johan's Google Reader Subscribeuser script for some time now. I just loved it. The only downside was that it draw a lot of attention and it slowed scrolling down on my laptop. If you've got the same problem you might like this one. It was designed to use as little screen size as possible. It only adds a feed icon in the top right corner. When you mouse over the feed icon the subscribe links are shown.

I could copy Johan's code but I chose to rewrote the code to experiment with XPath queries. Man, they are powerful!




Apr 23, 2008
Louise6380 User

Hi, thanks for this nice script. I have been using the modified version by Mihai but I see both original version and Mihai's has same problem when using with Firefox 3 beta.
The feed icon is now a folder with rss icon on Mac.
 
Jul 18, 2007
LucasR Scriptwright

Love it, especially the UI. So much so that I added said UI to dejalicious.

dejalicious++
 
May 11, 2007
Universe_JDJ User

Love this script...
 
Apr 21, 2007
alexandroid User

Excellent script, however I am using the modified version of it by Mihai Parparita which also displays a tick mark if the feed already subscribed.
 
Apr 13, 2006
Jasper de Vries Script's author

Thanks, Chris! I've modified it.
 
Apr 13, 2006
Chris Wetherell Scriptwright

This is a great script, Jasper! (I'm a Google engineer.) We made some recent changes in the Reader URLs, if you have time a small change in your script would improve things a bit, especially for search feeds.

The suggestion: if you change the string comprising the preview link to 'a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/'+ encodeURIComponent(feeds[i].href) +'"' then a redirect won't be incurred and querystrings in the feed URL will also be passed.

(Comment added again due to HTML getting rendered. D'oh!)
 
Apr 13, 2006
Chris Wetherell Scriptwright

This is a great script, Jasper! (I'm a Google engineer.) We made some recent changes in the Reader URLs, if you have time a small change in your script would improve things a bit, especially for search feeds.

The suggestion: if you change the string comprising the preview link to '' then a redirect won't be incurred and querystrings in the feed URL will also be passed.
 
Feb 24, 2006
Blake West Scriptwright

I use this script all the time. Perfect UI. Thanks!
 
Feb 13, 2006
Jason O'Hall... User

Simple, out of the way, easy to use.
 
Jan 25, 2006
Blake West Scriptwright

I really like this version of the script. The standard feed icon hardly ever intrudes into a page layout. Thanks!!

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