HTML5 vs JavaScript vs PHP | What are the differences?

HTML5

Stacks150.4K

Followers128.3K

+ 1

Votes2.2K

JavaScript

Stacks364.6K

Followers277.7K

+ 1

Votes8.1K

PHP

Stacks145.1K

Followers81.8K

+ 1

Votes4.6K

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Pros of HTML5

Pros of JavaScript

Pros of PHP

448
New doctype
389
Local storage
334
Canvas
285
Semantic header and footer
240
Video element
121
Geolocation
106
Form autofocus
100
Email inputs
85
Editable content
79
Application caches
10
Easy to use
9
Cleaner Code
5
Easy
4
Websockets
4
Semantical
3
Better
3
Audio element
3
Modern
2
Portability
2
Semantic Header and Footer, Geolocation, New Doctype
2
Content focused
2
Compatible
1
Very easy to learning to HTML

1.7K
Can be used on frontend/backend
1.5K
It's everywhere
1.2K
Lots of great frameworks
898
Fast
746
Light weight
425
Flexible
392
You can't get a device today that doesn't run js
286
Non-blocking i/o
237
Ubiquitousness
191
Expressive
55
Extended functionality to web pages
49
Relatively easy language
46
Executed on the client side
30
Relatively fast to the end user
25
Pure Javascript
21
Functional programming
15
Async
13
Full-stack
12
Future Language of The Web
12
Its everywhere
12
Setup is easy
11
Because I love functions
11
JavaScript is the New PHP
10
Like it or not, JS is part of the web standard
9
Expansive community
9
Everyone use it
9
Can be used in backend, frontend and DB
9
Easy
8
For the good parts
8
Powerful
8
Can be used both as frontend and backend as well
8
No need to use PHP
8
Easy to hire developers
8
Most Popular Language in the World
7
Its fun and fast
7
Hard not to use
7
Versitile
7
Nice
7
It's fun
7
Popularized Class-Less Architecture & Lambdas
7
Agile, packages simple to use
7
Supports lambdas and closures
7
Love-hate relationship
7
Photoshop has 3 JS runtimes built in
7
Evolution of C
6
Can be used on frontend/backend/Mobile/create PRO Ui
6
Easy to make something
6
It let's me use Babel & Typescript
6
1.6K Can be used on frontend/backend
6
Client side JS uses the visitors CPU to save Server Res
5
Scope manipulation
5
Clojurescript
5
Everywhere
5
What to add
5
Promise relationship
5
Stockholm Syndrome
5
Function expressions are useful for callbacks
5
Client processing
4
Only Programming language on browser
4
Because it is so simple and lightweight
1
Test2
1
Hard to learn
1
Subskill #4
1
Not the best
1
Easy to learn and test
1
Easy to understand
1
Easy to learn
1
Test
0
Hard 彤

953
Large community
819
Open source
767
Easy deployment
487
Great frameworks
387
The best glue on the web
235
Continual improvements
185
Good old web
145
Web foundation
135
Community packages
125
Tool support
35
Used by wordpress
34
Excellent documentation
29
Used by Facebook
23
Because of Symfony
21
Dynamic Language
17
Easy to learn
17
Cheap hosting
15
Very powerful web language
14
Awesome Language and easy to implement
14
Fast development
14
Because of Laravel
13
Composer
12
Flexibility, syntax, extensibility
9
Easiest deployment
8
Readable Code
8
Fast
7
Short development lead times
7
Most of the web uses it
7
Worst popularity quality ratio
7
Fastestest Time to Version 1.0 Deployments
6
Simple, flexible yet Scalable
6
Faster then ever
5
Open source and large community
4
Cheap to own
4
Has the best ecommerce(Magento,Prestashop,Opencart,etc)
4
Is like one zip of air
4
Open source and great framework
4
Large community, easy setup, easy deployment, framework
4
Easy to use and learn
4
Easy to learn, a big community, lot of frameworks
4
Great developer experience
4
I have no choice :(
2
Hard not to use
2
Walk away
2
Interpreted at the run time
2
FFI
2
Safe the planet
2
Used by STOMT
2
Fault tolerance
2
Great flexibility. From fast prototyping to large apps
1
Simplesaml
1
Bando
1
Secure
1
It can get you a lamborghini
0
Secure

Cons of HTML5

Cons of JavaScript

Cons of PHP

1
Easy to forget the tags when you're a begginner
1
Long and winding code

22
A constant moving target, too much churn
20
Horribly inconsistent
15
Javascript is the New PHP
9
No ability to monitor memory utilitization
8
Shows Zero output in case of ANY error
7
Thinks strange results are better than errors
6
Can be ugly
3
No GitHub
2
Slow
0
HORRIBLE DOCUMENTS, faulty code, repo has bugs

21
So easy to learn, good practices are hard to find
16
Inconsistent API
8
Fragmented community
6
Not secure
3
No routing system
3
Hard to debug
2
Old

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What is HTML5?

HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.

What is JavaScript?

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.