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RE: Here's Our Review Using Charlie Shrem's SteemPower.Org Editor for the First Time in Hopes of Improving our Blogging Experience
No one also didn't know that this exists @michaelstobiersk & @opheliafu:
https://pandao.github.io/editor.md/en.html
And it's better commented also in the original source.
But yeah, that became a common practice around here: plagiarism. Take other's work and present it as your own.
And because the one who did it it's a name in bitcoin community let's all bow in front of him and brag about what genius thing he did. Oh, wait ! Copying it's indeed a genius thing! I feel ashamed now that these are the people who represents the community.
A genius thing would be to promote the editor as it was made by the original creator (even if it's MIT License) and present as his a better and improved variant of it.
The markdown editor component is available under a free software license and the about dialog on the editor page has not been modified in any way.
When you say "better commented" I have to wonder what you mean - if you're talking about comments in the HTML and JavaScript then you'll have trouble reading them as the server minimises all content before sending it to the user's browser in order to save on bandwidth costs. This is done using a combination of python htmlmin and Yahoo's yui-compressor and I encourage you to look into these tools - neither is designed to obfuscate, just to remove whitespace etc in order to make the file smaller.
It is not plagiarism to reuse code that the author licensed you to reuse - in fact it's a practice done by just about all good developers. I responded to a similar comment on the original announcement post pointing out that the site also makes use of Debian GNU/Linux, nginx, web.py and Python - none of which I am the author of, but I never claimed to be.
I am however author of the FastCGI web.py process that serves up the content, the javascript for local drafts, the sample markdown, the API and the other pages on the site.
Thanks for the link to the open source code! We agree that it's honorable and considerate to credit the innovators.