Safety Goggles

goggles.js

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// SafetyGoggles
// @name	SafetyGoggles
// @version	0.1.10082010
// @description Highlighlights Weasel Words in Text. Just a proof of concept version.
// @include http://*
// THIS VERSION IS SLOW AND SOMETIMES BREAKS LINKS -- Still needs work
var docbod;
docbod = document.body;

function recursively_change_text_of_children(node) {
  terminalnode = node.childNodes.length;
  if (terminalnode === 1) {
    if (typeof(node.innerHTML) != 'string') {
      return false;
      }
    wordlist = ["legendary",
    "great",
    "leading",
    "famous",
    "cult",
    "extremist",
    "denialist",
    "pseudo",
    "some",
    "many",
    "most",
    "experts",
    "often",
    "widely",
    "science",
    "supposed",
    "purported",
    "alleged",
    "accused",
    "so-called",
    "clearly",
    "fnord"];
    var number_of_words = wordlist.length;
    for (i = 0;i < number_of_words;i++) {
      node.innerHTML = node.innerHTML.replace(new RegExp("(" + wordlist[i] + ")","gi"),"<span class='e11a6f39580ed84623de5da732bc9a02_goggles' style='background: yellow; font-weight: bolder; border-bottom: double red 3px;'>$1</span>");
      }
    }
  else {
    for (i in node.children) {
      recursively_change_text_of_children(node.children[i]);
      }
    }
  }
recursively_change_text_of_children(docbod);