Whatever, dude! I concur with everything you've said. Especially the bit about not using the timeline. The web is for interactive content, people, not timeline-based animation. Flash shifted focus to the former long, long ago.
I want to clarify why I mentioned Papervision. Papervision will achieve a similar effect to WebGL (you get textured polygons in your browser), and it won't require installing anything that 90% of users don't already have.
For developers and creative types (of the sort called out in response to my initial post), we need solutions that work today. There's no sense in getting us excited about tech we can't use; it's just showing-off that your particular platform has more bling. Tech demos are impressive when the technology is available to everyone. What we're seeing with these demos is as indicative of what can be done on the internet, now or in the near future, as a pre-rendered cinematic is indicative of the graphics in a video game. They're boastful and deceptive.
I want to clarify why I mentioned Papervision. Papervision will achieve a similar effect to WebGL (you get textured polygons in your browser), and it won't require installing anything that 90% of users don't already have.
For developers and creative types (of the sort called out in response to my initial post), we need solutions that work today. There's no sense in getting us excited about tech we can't use; it's just showing-off that your particular platform has more bling. Tech demos are impressive when the technology is available to everyone. What we're seeing with these demos is as indicative of what can be done on the internet, now or in the near future, as a pre-rendered cinematic is indicative of the graphics in a video game. They're boastful and deceptive.