You can get around that by having much of it in the cloud or avoiding things like huge textures and the likes. Then again, browser processes with hundreds of me

You can get around that by having much of it in the cloud or avoiding things like huge textures and the likes. Then again, browser processes with hundreds of megs of RAM aren't exactly unknown. Blender can actually be quite efficient in terms of memory. I have been using it as a command line application at times, because it starts up really fast.