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I have a blog, in which have small AJAX (jQuery) widgets which load tweets, Flickr photos, etc. They work fine in Blogger, but when I see the feed for my site in Google Reader, the posts don't show my widgets correctly. Instead, they show the loading/placeholder text within each HTML <div> that hosts the widget.

Apologies if this is more suited to Stack Overflow, but the programming aspect of this all works. What I don't understand is how does Google Reader get your blog post content, and how can I make AJAX content display in Reader?

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I doubt you can do anything. The RSS source shows that the widget isn't being populated. – Sathya♦ Dec 15 '11 at 12:59
Yeah, but why, and what can I do to change that? – Ralph Lavelle Dec 15 '11 at 22:28

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The RSS source shows that the widget isn't being populated. That's because the widget gets populated via an Ajax request after the post has loaded. The RSS feed doesn't execute the js request.

You'll have to find a way to execute the js & populate the js when the feed is generated, which I don't think is possible because you're on blogger which doesn't give you the option.

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I'm beginning to think any Javascript is out when it comes to Google Reader. As you suggest, I have to come up with another way, or else simple copy a static version of the dynamic content to be the default content. Which kinda defeats the whole purpose. – Ralph Lavelle Dec 17 '11 at 1:31

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