How do I associate a custom MIME-type to my local application in the major browsers?
I want to invent a new mime-type and associate it to a custom application in the browser to enable users to launch my app from a web page. The users of my secure web site are in a closed-environment, meaning this is not a general-purpose, mainstream application - I can configure their browser ahead of time. Spoon.net does something very similar to enable launching virtualized applications using their mini-kernel plugin. One of the answers to this question alluded to this method, without details for how to accomplish it. How do I achieve this in a cross-platform manner on Chrome and IE 8/9? Is