[gimp-web/testing] Update GIMP 2.10.8 news and add some images.



commit 67fdcd6a626eead7144f0bbbe64ad898def53e58
Author: Jehan <jehan girinstud io>
Date:   Thu Nov 8 00:52:57 2018 +0100

    Update GIMP 2.10.8 news and add some images.
    
    The twitter embedding was not working fine anyway as it used an external
    script. Also update the news date.

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index b78c39a1..d9e13cc1 100644
--- a/content/news/2018-09_GIMP-2.10.8_Released/index.md
+++ b/content/news/2018-09_GIMP-2.10.8_Released/index.md
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 Title: GIMP 2.10.8 Released
-Date: 2018-09-30
+Date: 2018-11-08
 Category: News
 Authors: Wilber
 Slug: gimp-2-10-8-released
-Summary: GIMP 2.10.8 released, bug fixes and optimizations
+Summary: GIMP 2.10.8 released: bug fixes and optimizations
 Status: draft
 
 Though the updated GIMP release policy allows cool new features in micro releases,
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ in GEGL](https://www.patreon.com/posts/camayakaa-float-22446330), GIMP's
 graphics engine, which happens to be the groundwork for CMYK processing.
 
 This is therefore the first steps for better CMYK support in GIMP!
-We hope that anyone who wants to see this happening in GIMP will
+We hope that anyone who wants to see this happening will
 support [Øyvind on Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/pippin)!
 
 ### GIMP in University
@@ -83,46 +83,51 @@ She taught to 2 classes, a computer graphics class and a 3D heritage one,
 focusing on digital illustration for the former and
 retouching for the later.
 
-<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="fr"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Now here is the last day with the 3D 
heritage 🏺 class (<a href="https://twitter.com/AryeomHan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw";>@AryeomHan</a> on the right) of 
<a href="https://twitter.com/UniversiteCergy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw";>@UniversiteCergy</a> <a 
href="https://twitter.com/ucp_lpmn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw";>@ucp_lpmn</a>. They worked on retouching (+ painting 
basics) e.g. old frescos/painting. As last exercise, they digitally saved Mona Lisa from vandalism thanks to 
<a href="https://twitter.com/GIMP_Official?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw";>@GIMP_Official</a> ! ;-) <a 
href="https://t.co/8xJw8BeBWn";>pic.twitter.com/8xJw8BeBWn</a></p>&mdash; ZeMarmot (@zemarmot) <a 
href="https://twitter.com/zemarmot/status/1053584663145525249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw";>20 octobre 
2018</a></blockquote>
-<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"; charset="utf-8"></script>
+<figure>
+<img src="{attach}gimp-2-10-8-Univ_Cergy.jpg" alt="Students being taught computer graphics with GIMP"/>
+<figcaption>
+<a href="https://twitter.com/zemarmot/status/1053584659400015872";>Aryeom and her students</a>
+in University of Cergy-Pontoise
+</figcaption>
+</figure>
 
-This is a well-deserved demonstration that GIMP is getting more and more
-recognition as it now gets taught in big schools and universities. Students
-were very happy overall, and I will conclude by quoting a student at
-the end of a 3 day-course:
+This is a good hint that GIMP is getting more recognition as it now
+gets taught in universities. Students were very happy overall, and we
+could conclude by quoting one of them at the end of a 3-day course:
 
->*I didn't know that GIMP was the Blender for 2D; now this is one more software in my toolbox!*
+<blockquote>I didn't know that GIMP was the Blender for 2D; now this is one more
+software in my toolbox!</blockquote>
 
 We remind that you can also support [Aryeom's work on
-Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/zemarmot), [on
-Tipeee](https://fr.tipeee.com/zemarmot) or
-[Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/ZeMarmot/).
+Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/zemarmot), on
+[Tipeee](https://fr.tipeee.com/zemarmot) or [by others
+means](https://film.zemarmot.net/en/donate)!
 
 ### Debugging GIMP on macOS
 
-Our macOS contributor, Alex Samorukov, has been very hard at work
+Our main macOS contributor, Alex Samorukov, has been very hard at work
 improving the macOS/OSX package, debugging and patching.
 
-As a side note, when Aryeom was teaching with GIMP, one of the 2
-classrooms was on macOS (the other being on Linux), and we discovered 2
-very annoying bugs (docks locking up and glitchs on white parts of
-canvas), which got fixed by [Ell](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gegl/issues/104) and
-[Jehan](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/1924).
+As a side note, when teaching with GIMP, one of the 2 classrooms was on
+macOS (the other being on Linux), and we discovered 2 very annoying bugs
+(docks locking up and glitchs on white parts of canvas), which got fixed
+by [Jehan](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/1924) (also from
+*ZeMarmot* project) and [Ell](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gegl/issues/104).
 
 We remind that we have very few developers for macOS and Windows and we
-welcome any contributors if you want GIMP to be well supported on your
+welcome new contributors if you want GIMP to be well supported on your
 operating system of choice!
 
 ### Flatpak statistics
 
 Though Flathub does not provide (yet) any public statistics for packages,
-some internal source told us that there have been over 214,000 downloads of GIMP 
+some internal source told us that there have been over 214,000 downloads of GIMP
 since its existence ([2017/10](https://twitter.com/zemarmot/status/920045077992476673)).
 This is more than 500 downloads a day, and by far the most downloaded flathub application!
 
 Flathub is a new kind of application repository for GNU/Linux, so of
 course these numbers are not representative of all downloads.
-In particular, we don't have statistics for Windows and macOS versions.
+In particular, we don't have statistics for Windows and macOS.
 Even for Linux, every distribution out there makes its own package of GIMP.
 
 So this is a small share, and a nice one, of the full usage of
@@ -133,26 +138,37 @@ GIMP around the globe!
 The GIF format is the only animated image format which is visible in any
 web browser, making it the de-facto format for basic animation on the
 web, despite terrible quality (256 colors!), binary transparency (no
-partial transparency), and not so good compression.
+partial transparency) and not so good compression.
 
 Well, this may change soon! A few days ago, WebP reached support in all major
-browsers (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera) first,
+browsers (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera),
 when a [2-year old feature request for Mozilla Firefox got closed as
-"FIXED"](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1294490).
+"FIXED"](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1294490). This
+will be available for Firefox 65.
 
-Therefore we sure hope platforms will take this new format into consideration,
+Therefore we sure hope web platforms will take this new format into consideration,
 and that everyone will stop creating GIF images now that there are actual
 alternatives in most browser!
 
 And last but not least, we remind everyone that GIMP has already had WebP support
 since [GIMP 2.10.0](https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/04/27/gimp-2-10-0-released/)!
 
-Disclaimer: the GIMP team is neutral towards formats. We are aware of
+<figure>
+<img src="{attach}gimp-2-10-8-ZeMarmot-frama.webp"
+alt="If you see this text (instead of an animation), your browser
+does not support WebP yet!"/>
+<figcaption>
+A WebP animation (done in GIMP), by Aryeom, featuring ZeMarmot and a penguin.
+</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+*Disclaimer*: the GIMP team is neutral towards formats. We are aware of
 other animated image formats, such as APNG or MNG, and wish them all the
-best as well!
+best as well! We would also be very happy to support them in GIMP if
+contributors show up with working patches.
 
 ## Conclusion
 
-This is a small release, yet a very eventful time!
+This is a small release, yet quite an eventful time!
 
 We wish you a lot of fun with GIMP, as it becomes stabler every day!


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