While this seems really bizarre, again, browser based capabilities ARE primed to increase pretty dramatically compared to the level of sophistication it has reached in these last few years—-Unity3D's upcoming version 3 being the best I know of.

So, cautious optimism, but they really should've educated this person a bit better so as to not cast such a shadow on this whole thing…

Providing, of course, somebody at the company actually DOES know better.