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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.

 
ekbworldwide Scriptwright

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.

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