Crystalspace & Cel as a browser pluging.

Is this just a crazy dream or is can it become real? A member of the CS
community has created a celstart plugin for firefox so technically it can be
done. 

I am currently working for a coustomer who wants a small virtual world in
their webpage. I have been looking at different technical solutions for this
but if- it could be done in cs it would give me incredible artistic power to
make some really nice looking graphics compared to the alternatives.

Her are some reasons why I think it would be very difficult/impossible to use
cs/cel for this project:

1 Deployment of software on so many different platforms/browsers and hw.
This as I see it is the main problem. With the deployment of this type of
plugin comes hw issues, browser version issues os issues, antivirus/firewall
issues, and so on.
This is for example why I am seriously considering using flash even thought
the graphics would su** and it would have serious feature limitations and
flash is not a developer friendly platform to use. 

2 Size of the plugin and library dependences. How big would the plugin be?
Flash is about 4 mb. (1.5 mb for the activeX plugin.)

3 Hw requirements. What sort of hw would be needed to run a sc/cel
application? Could it run for example on a normal modern laptop? (in this
particular case the target users are not heavy computer users or gamers. Just
ordinary users.)

4 Why make it a browser plugin at all? If flash (Flash will probably never be
a good choice for 3D because Adobe doesn't want to add the features needed to
do so. According to there standard policy about keeping it simple.)
So if Flash and other 3D web plugins dosn't work why not make it a standalone
application?

Sorry for the long text. I really want your feedback on this.
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