Webmention is a simple way to notify any URL when you link to it on your site DoingStuff.DonaldNoyes.20140820
What is WebMention?
- From the receivers perspective
- it's a way to request notifications when other sites link to it
What makes it work?
- It uses only HTTP
- making it possible to construct simple HTML forms that exercise the protocol, which is a good design principle for web protocols in general
Who is using this and how?
- some IndieWeb participants are already using this
It provides the ability to provide simple (no JS needed) webmention submit forms
- on blog posts for others to paste URLs to their replies