Handling "unusual" media types

Can anyone comment on how one might handle non image/movie/text
media types?

Since 1994 we have been handling  chemical models via a class of 
MIME types  chemical/foo (yes, I know the ratification was never
completed by  IETF, but we did try!). These can be resolved via a 
range of browser plugins (Chime, Chem3D). These data types were
subsequently also processed by  <applet> and most recently by
expression as  XML/XSL. 

To get "chemistry" to our audience, we <embed> (or <object>)
data with our movies; see http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/video/rees/.

I am wondering what the correct approach is to integrate this
with SMIL. I dont think its possible at  V1.0. Might it be so
with the  Boston SMIL specifications? 
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Henry Rzepa. +44 (0)20 7594 5774 (Office) +44 (0)20 7594 5804 (Fax)
Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, London, SW7  2AY, UK. 
http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/

Received on Wednesday, 8 March 2000 11:20:48 UTC