Once again Google has brought a new feature for its users. Google Reader is the kind of tool most people don’t really notice, but use all day. There’s all kinds of talks for moving away from RSS feeds, about Twitter being the place to be and all that, but fact is feeds work and they’re only getting better. And Google Reader is getting better with them. In the latest update, the popular feed reader got some pretty interesting, though understated, new features.

We’ve added support for the HTML5 and tags, so that when you come across an awesome video you can share it in such a way that your mobile device-using friends can see it too,” Mihai Parparita, Google Reader developer, wrote.

Google Reader has released a slew of new updates today, the most prominent being support for HTML5-powered videos and audio. As HTML5 gains steam, partially due to Apple’s war against Adobe Flash, more and more websites are switching to HTML5 interfaces that work on both the desktop and mobile phones. Google, understanding this reality, has intelligently responded by adding HTML5 support for the video and audio HTML5 tags within Google Reader. Google Reader uses an automated system to recommend things that people shared and which you may like, but if the recommendations failed, there was no way of letting Reader know that. With the new link you can easily dismiss the recommended item and also help the algorithm know you better so it won’t send you similar stuff in the future.

Google Reader tends to release these types of small updates often, so it has also added a prompt to refresh whenever Google Reader is updated. The HTML5 additions are the big updates of this release though, and while Google is currently supporting Adobe Flash in the face of Apple’s assault, the reality is that HTML5 is rising as the primary alternative to Flash. Expect to see more and more websites adopt the standard

I was testing this feature and found it was working smoothly. What are you waiting for? Go and check out this new support feature!

Source: Mashable!

Google adds HTML5 support to its reader. is a post from: Extreme Trix