Can silverlight finally substitute javascript? [closed]

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Maybe it sounds silly, but it seems to me that since silverlight and javascript both can only be executed on 开发者_运维知识库the browser, if the industry standard requires all the browsers to pre-install silverlight, can MS possibily create a new technology that can balance the C# code execution on server side and browser side? All the client and server side can be developed by .net only, and I don't need to develop the javacript anymore.

Is this possible? Or is there some hurdles that MS cannot overcome to abandon javascript?

Thanks,

Wei

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They solve completely different problems, but if anything Javascript has a greater chance of making Silverlight obsolete (along with AJAX etc.) than the other way around.

Also, there are MANY programmers who don't know (and don't care to know) the first thing about .NET. Why would they want to be forced into MS development?