You're basically describing Microsoft OLE[1]. There was also the open-source alternative, OpenDoc[2] that never got anywhere... this has been tried and just do

You're basically describing Microsoft OLE[1]. There was also the open-source alternative, OpenDoc[2] that never got anywhere... this has been tried and just doesn't work. The only thing that seems to work is media-types on the Internet... with the browser as the universal viewer/processor... but as it is currently, it's hard to make it better than what we have. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Linking_and_Embedding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Linking_and_Embedding [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc