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Kerrick on Feb 11, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Subtome – Universal subscribe button

At first glance, this seems like a non-compatible subset of Web Intents [0] that only pertains to subscriptions. Why use the SubToMe button over the Web Intents shim?

[0]: http://webintents.org/

julien on Feb 11, 2013 [–]

Well, we actually wanted to use WebIntents to do that, but then WebIntents disappeared from Chrome, so we decided to create a similar approach which would work specifically for subscriptions :)

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