Nicholas Clarke

I use Google Reader as my main RSS client. For me it has answered all of my problems I had with using a desktop client + it allows me to share posts that I think are interesting without having to write a post myself by just clicking a button. It does however have some oddities itself e.g. phantom posts that I can never find but are in my sidebar folder structure.

Yesterday I noticed another feature, someone shared a post of mine and I noticed that my embedded video was not displaying!

After hunting around and comparing a couple of other RSS feeds I noticed that Google Reader seems to be stripping out YouTube <object> tags. To fix the problem I had to use <embed>. After waiting for Google to refresh their cache it is now working + I also get a nice popout link (something they must add).

If you are also experiencing the same problem be sure to check out what html is being generated by your site and then subsequently removed by Google Reader.