Why was Silverlight created

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In a world where the Internet appears more frequently in our everyday lives, static web sites composed only from text and pictures have become boring. A solution for this problem was the creation of PHP. Suddenly it was possible for the Server to create dynamical web sites, depending on the choices the user made. Still this wasn’t the best solution, because the server had to do all the work. Through the creation of JavaScript, it was suddenly possible for the client to take over a part of the workload. JavaScript allows the Developer to create a Code which will be executed from the Browser on the Client side, and so change the look of the web page, without the need to communicate with the Server. This allow for a more interactive and faster responding web pages. Two big “problems” with JavaScript are that, it is really hard to program in it, and everybody can see the JavaScript code.

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The Code Behind the Silverlight Application in Silverlight 1.0 can be written in JavaScript. Being so that JavaScript can be interpreted by almost every Browser, and the fact that it doesen’t need to be previously compiled, a Silverlight 1.0 Application can be created from any computer with only a text editor and it can be deployed to any kind of Web Sever. It can even be executed locally, through the “file” protocol in the browser. But all this advantages are bringing other disadvantages. Programming in JavaScript is not easy and the debugging is complicated. Not only that, but JavaScript is slow. The first impression was that Microsoft released Silverlight 1.0 in order to be the first to release a product with which Rich Internet Application can be developed. But with time, Microsoft has shown (through different demos)that Silverlight 1.0 is not a product version to get us to Silverlight 2.0, but actually a standalone Product. Microsoft also declared that at this time, has no intentions to stop the developing of JavaScript as the background code of Silverlight Applications.
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