The specification

View your specification

Your specification is stored in index.html: the end result. You should view it in a browser. There are two ways to do this:

• via file:///
• via http://

Via file:///

The simplest way to do so is via file:///:

• go to the index.html file with your Explorer, Finder, or other file manager
• double-click on it. Usually, it now opens in your browser.

If not, go to the browser and try to open the file from the browser menu.

This way, you open the index.html file via the file protocol (“file:///”).

Via http://

You can also access it via HTTP. You then need to place the index.html file on a web server and access it through a browser using the URL under which the file is accessible.

This way, you can share it with the world by sharing the URL.

If you follow the most likely scenario, namely, you host your specification on GitHub Pages, then you look at it "via HTTP.”

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“Via http://” is a complicated way of saying that you are just looking at your specifications via the Internet, just like you are looking at a Wikipedia page, etc.

However, here it is briefly necessary to mention this because you can also double-click on the file and look “via file:///”.

Explanation of the buttons in the specification

Terms

Button	Explanation
🖊️	Link to the term file in the Github repo in a new tab
📅	Link to a GitHub page that shows a history of the edits in a new tab

External references

Button	Explanation
xref	Show the local snapshot of the referenced term, created at the moment the xref was made.
xref < > now	Show diff between the local snapshot of the latest version and the referenced version
xref < > now	A Diff between the latest commit hash of the definition and the commit hash referenced when the link was created.
xref	Go to the repo page of the definition‘s version referenced when the link was created.
now	Go to the repo page of the definition‘s latest version.