Makes titles on the Metafilter front page smaller, and moves them to the "posted by" line.
// ==UserScript==
// @name Subdue Metafilter Titles
// @namespace http://example.com/SubdueMetafilterTitles
// @description Makes titles on the Metafilter front page smaller, and moves them to the "posted by" line.
// @include http://www.metafilter.com/
// @include http://www.metafilter.com/*?page=*
// @include http://ask.metafilter.com/
// @include http://ask.metafilter.com/*?page=*
// @include http://metatalk.metafilter.com/
// @include http://metatalk.metafilter.com/*?page=*
// @version 1
// ==/UserScript==
var posttitleDivSnap = document.evaluate(
"//div[contains(concat(' ', @class, ' '), ' posttitle ')]",
document, null, XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
for (var i = 0; i < posttitleDivSnap.snapshotLength; i++) {
var posttitleDiv = posttitleDivSnap.snapshotItem(i);
var posttitleLinkSnap = document.evaluate("a", posttitleDiv,
null, XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
if (posttitleLinkSnap.snapshotLength != 1) {
continue;
}
var posttitleLink = posttitleLinkSnap.snapshotItem(0);
var metafilterIndex = posttitleLink.href.indexOf("metafilter.com");
if (metafilterIndex < 0) {
continue;
}
var relativeLink = posttitleLink.href.substring(metafilterIndex + 14);
var smallcopyLinksToSameSnap = document.evaluate(
"//span[contains(concat(' ', @class, ' '), ' smallcopy ')]" +
"//a[@href='" + relativeLink + "']",
document, null,
XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
for (var j = 0; j < smallcopyLinksToSameSnap.snapshotLength; ++j) {
var smallcopyLinkToSame = smallcopyLinksToSameSnap.snapshotItem(j);
var parentSpan = smallcopyLinkToSame.parentNode;
if (parentSpan.innerHTML.indexOf("posted by") == 0) {
parentSpan.innerHTML = "<em>" + posttitleLink.innerHTML + "</em>" +
"<br/>" + parentSpan.innerHTML;
posttitleDiv.parentNode.removeChild(posttitleDiv);
break;
}
}
}