Safari Extension: Google Reader Styles

Today, Apple has introduced the brand new Safari 5 at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco. Besides a further massive performance increase, one of the main new features is the ability to create and install extensions for Apple’s browser. Extensions are basically collections of HTML, CSS and Javascript files that extend Safari’s features through a special Extension API.

After an hour of digging through the documentation, I’m able to show you my first extension for Safari: Google Reader Styles lets you change the theme of Google Reader without installing GreaseKit or any other Greasemonkey-Plugin. Currently there are only two styles (Helvetireader and the Mac OS X Snow Leopard) available – with more to come in the next few days. The different styles can be selected in the Safari Preferences.

Helvetireader:

Mac OS X Snow Leopard:

UPDATE v1.1 – 2010/06/10

  • Added support for .de/.co.uk/.nl/.ch/.at/.fr/.it/.es/.ca/.com.au domains
  • Added support for https
  • Added two new styles (Lucidica, Simple and Clean)

UPDATE v1.2.1 – 2010/06/11

  • Added a “Change Style” function at the bottom left of Google Reader, directly below “Manage Subscriptions”
  • Added two new styles (Minimalistic XPretty White)
  • Added support for .ru domain

UPDATE v1.2.2 – 2010/06/23

  • Fixed support for .ru domain
  • Added support for .mx domain

Download: Google Reader Styles

Kommentare

  1. MacKing

    9. Juni 2010

    The extension don’t work for me (google.de). Works it only with google.com?

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  3. Fabian Pimminger

    9. Juni 2010

    @MacKing: That’s an known error. A fix is on its way :)

  4. kevin

    9. Juni 2010

    its not working for me at all, im on safari for windows if that makes a difference

  5. szotyi

    10. Juni 2010

    Great work. Thanks. You should enable it for https also.

  6. Fabian Pimminger

    10. Juni 2010

    The version 1.1 is released with more supported domains and two new styles

  7. Vali

    10. Juni 2010

    Wow, thanks for that! I really like it and it already got four styles to choose from. Great work!

  8. coco81

    10. Juni 2010

    thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!! it is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! I want the same for GMail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

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  11. Fabian Pimminger

    11. Juni 2010

    New Update to v1.2 including inline style changing and two new styles available. Should be appearing in the update-tab in the safari preferences!

  12. Miky

    11. Juni 2010

    hi…
    automatic update don’t work… version downloaded it’s 1.1 new version 1.2 ?????

    thx

  13. Alex

    11. Juni 2010

    google.ru please !!!

  14. Fabian Pimminger

    11. Juni 2010

    @Miky: Thanks … I’ve fixed the bug and added google.ru! The new Version is v1.2.1

  15. Emerson

    11. Juni 2010

    Great extension!

    Please, google.com.br!

    Regreads from Brasil!

  16. lodenmuse

    12. Juni 2010

    Thank you–NOT! This totally borked Reader in my Safari, even uninstalling it doesn’t help! I can see the Reader site in all its glory for a moment while I refresh, but then page settles on a half-blank page with a nuked-out whole left column missing. I can’t even visit Reader in Safari anymore, I have to visit the site in Firefox. May just have to reinstall Safari. Sucks.

  17. lodenmuse

    12. Juni 2010

    When extensions were turned off, all was fine, so deleted the Extensions.plist and all extensions and started over from the beginning. All is pretty now, just not a fun night. Good thing I saved all my other .safariextz’s.

  18. lodenmuse

    12. Juni 2010

    Fabian, I apologize… it was the extension Re-Reader that was working on top of yours that was throwing things off. Actually, all was working fine, except my brain. Re-Reader is just like… um, driving blind. Just delete my misdirected rantings. =^)

  19. Alex

    13. Juni 2010

    .ru domain no work

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  22. Lalo

    24. Juni 2010

    .mx domain not working.
    Thanks.

  23. Fabian Pimminger

    24. Juni 2010

    New UPDATE: .ru domains are fixed and .mx domains are included now!

  24. iRock

    25. Juni 2010

    I guess that in the future will come support for more domains. I understand also that you will be working first on the most important ones, but please add support for .CL!

    Greetings from Chile.

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  26. onkBott

    29. Juni 2010

    great work!
    could you please add support fro .cz domain?
    thanks.

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  30. JS

    3. Juli 2010

    I was impressed to see the beautiful graph. The original google reader has ABSOLUTELY NO TASTE, neither does igoogle. It was why I used safari for my default rss reader. But the nice graph of your extension really change the role of google reader in my mind. Now I can start google reader again. The beauty is that it syncs over cloud and won’t show the read threads. I sincerely you can make an extension for igoogle too. Thank you so much.

  31. Junior Santos

    16. Juli 2010

    The domain is not available. br?

  32. Belinda

    2. August 2010

    Thank you so much for making this! I love Helvetireader, and this makes it so simple to use. :)

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  34. Marie

    12. August 2010

    Doesn’t work for .be either :’(

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