Newsletter 7: Add Veloren February content

[AngelOnFira]

Part of #64 ("Newsletter 7: Coordination/Tracking")

This includes a Youtube iframe template. Hopefully it's ok to add.

[ozkriff]

This includes a Youtube iframe template. Hopefully it's ok to add.

Hmm. I've been deliberately trying to avoid everything that GitHub's Markdown render can't handle - so previews & diffs stay useful.

@17cupsofcoffee @Lokathor @AlexEne @erlend-sh - what do you think?

[AlexEne]

I would go for the ease of preview, you can leave it as a link

[17cupsofcoffee]

I have no philosophical objection to including YouTube embeds in the newsletter, but would also slightly lean towards doing them in a way that shows up on GitHub's PR preview if at all possible.

If you put the embed HTML directly in the markdown file, does it show up on GitHub? If so, maybe we could keep the CSS classes and provide an example of how to use them in the 'ideal section structure' at the top of the newsletter template? Might be less maintainable though, somewhat torn 😅

[ozkriff]

If you put the embed HTML directly in the markdown file, does it show up on GitHub?

Nope, GitHub's Markdown doesn't support iframe:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6tZByt4LBlU" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[17cupsofcoffee]

Bah, understandable (would probably be a security nightmare) but annoying!

[AngelOnFira]

I understand that it would be great to be able to preview what it looks like in the PR, but it really seems like we'd be shooting ourselves in the foot on this one. Youtube videos are a good standard of something that plays videos on the newsletter, and I imagine there will be times that this comes up again in the future.

As far as I can find, there isn't anything that can embed youtube videos into Github markdown without doing an external link.

[AlexEne]

There are a bunch of other youtube vids linked with normal links from the newsletter, so I think it's fine to leave this one with a link too (just like the others).

As a bonus it also makes for easier diffs like @ozkriff said.

You can add a small .gif that links to the youtube for example.

[ozkriff]

I usually used either GIFs or youtube screenshots for linking to videos.

[17cupsofcoffee]

Another potential consideration would be that if we allowed YouTube embeds, we'd have to strip them out if we ever started sending the newsletter out as an email, as most email clients block iframes. That kinda makes me lean towards @ozkriff's suggestion, although I agree it's not ideal to not have the videos inline.

[AngelOnFira]

kk sounds good, I'll go for the gif option

[AngelOnFira]

@ozkriff Should be good to go now :)