Feature
Show a YouTube video from its link. The page carries only a cover picture and a play button, and YouTube’s player loads only when a visitor presses play, from YouTube’s privacy-enhanced address.
Nothing but the thumbnail is fetched from YouTube until you do. Then the player replaces the cover and takes focus.
Tab to a play button and press Enter. With script off, it is a plain link to the video on YouTube.
A link to a YouTube Short draws a tall box, never taller than most of the screen.
With a cover image set, nothing at all is requested from YouTube or Google before the click.
Paste the link and give the video a title. The box is at its final size before anything loads, so the page does not jump.
A video is a block like any other, so two sit in a pair of columns. On a phone they stack.
The shape follows the link: a Shorts link is tall (9:16). At full width it would be taller than the screen, so the box is capped and centred.
Short clips suit a book club’s social posts: a title, a line on why, and gone in a minute.
Set Shape by hand to show a Short in another ratio.
The cover is an uploaded picture, not YouTube’s thumbnail, so this page makes no request to YouTube or Google until a visitor presses play.
This link carries ?t=1m30s, so the video starts at one minute thirty. Subtitles are on where the video has them.
