Scheme and design markup language for interoperability of electronic design application tool and browser

A method for modifying an integrated circuit (IC) design having a plurality of IC design objects, the method comprising:

• generating, by a browser executing on a computer, a page of information by rendering a markup language document, the page of information including one or more references encoded in a scheme registered with the browser, each of the one or more references represents an integrated circuit (IC) design object of the plurality of IC design objects;
• receiving, by the browser, a user interaction associated with one of the one or more references in the generated page of information;
• generating, by the browser, a browser event responsive to the user interaction;
• processing, by the browser, the generated browser event;
• determining, by the browser, whether the processed browser event is associated with the reference of a specific type;
• and
• responsive to the reference being of the specific type, sending the user interaction and the reference from the browser to an electronic design automation (EDA) system to cause the EDA system to modify a corresponding IC design object in the IC design associated with the reference.