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TMZ Poll Results

Overview

TMZ is a really fun website. Their polls are often interesting too. But the problem is, you have to vote to see the results.

The Greasemonkey userscript "TMZ Poll Results" provides a way to see the poll results without voting. All you have to do is click on the bold and red title that immediately preceeds the radio buttons.

As with any Greasemonkey user script, it messes with a site over which none of us have any control. TMZ is perfectly capable of changing their website tomorrow and suddenly, this user script could stop working. But again, that's true of any user script.

On the other hand, I personally use this script all the time. If TMZ changes their poll URLs or web pages such that this script stops working, I'm going to want to fix it right away, for my own use.

View Source

The following .js hotlink opens a new window containing the source code of Version 1.1 (2011-08-21). (TMZ changed to newer, better looking buttons. At the same time, they changed the title to bold and red (previously just bold) using different HTML. This necessitated changing the CSS selector of the title and adding brief documentation.)

If you prefer to get your plugins from the userscripts.org site, the following hotlink takes you there in a new window:

Previous Version(s)

The following .js hotlink opens a new window containing the source code of Version 1.0 (2011-05-07). It doesn't work with the HTML currently being served up by TMZ. So it's pretty useless unless you want to do a file comparison ("diff") to highlight the differnces.

Not sure whether or not you can get previous version(s) from userscripts.org. But if so, it would be via the same URL as the current version. The following hotlink takes you there in a new window: