Why was Silverlight created

Short Description
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.