An example .shtml file might look something like this:
: Visit BBC News for the latest on world events and AI developments as of April 2026.
Instead of hard-coding a navigation bar on every page, you write an include directive: view shtml new
An .shtml file is an HTML document that contains directives. Unlike plain .html , the server parses .shtml files before sending them to the browser, executing special embedded commands.
: A "New" status indicator automatically highlights .shtml files that have been modified within the last 24 hours or have active incoming traffic. An example
I saved the file and pushed it to the staging branch. The CI pipeline, the slow mechanical guardian of our deployments, woke and began its tests. I watched the logs as if they were a seismograph: build started, lint passed, tests... failing. A unit test flagged a date parser that expected UTC but received local time. I cursed softly, corrected the parser, and committed again. The build retried and passed on the second run, like someone finally getting the coffee order right.
devices to deliver dynamic content, such as live video streams, directly to a web browser. : A "New" status indicator automatically highlights
location / ssi on; ssi_types text/html;