zCat - 8:57 am on Oct 10, 2007 (gmt 0)

Hmm (just playing devil's advocate here) say I come up with an innovative commercial online application which can only work in Javascript and there's no conceivable way of realizing it in plain old HTML: what does the law say then?

For example: an online wordprocessor app, which wouldn't make any sense without a rich JS-based UI (unless you want to realise it using HTML forms, which is a bit ridiculous). Google Docs stops you at the start page with "Your browser must support javascript."