The internet continues to expand its impact on diverse industries and sectors. Businesses have adopted an online presence and now, cater to online users all over the world. This progress is the contribution of web application development, which essentially comprises of business tactics and procedures that are implemented on the internet. It includes three tiers – user services, data services, and business services. The web application development is essential in the modern business world where companies all over the world communicate with each other.

The proper implementation of web application is important to guarantee desired results and achievement of targets. The core phases include envisaging the direction of the project and the goals to be achieved, preparing a project plan, coding and developing the project, and testing and removing the final inconsistencies and bugs in the project. One has several alternatives to choose as far as the technical options are concerned. PHP is a widely used scripting language for developing dynamic and functional web applications. Since it is extremely versatile, it can perform efficiently over any type of OS. This compatibility over diverse platforms has made PHP extremely popular among developers.

HTML5 has been around us from past three years and is slowly evolving as a thriving web development language due to which many tech industry leaders and developers have started embracing it for web and mobile application development. HTML5 stands for hypertext mark up language, which is used for structuring and displaying content on the internet. It is the fifth version of HTML, and is integrated with CSS3 and advanced series of JavaScript API, known as Application Programming Interface.  HTML is a composite of features such as technologies, advanced features, and APIs that connects potential of desktop with the speed and connectivity of the internet.

From programming point of view, HTML5 is an advanced markup language, which is compatible with high-end multimedia applications. It is easy to read and understand by humans, computers and web browsers, alike. As per the recent research, the world’s top 100 websites are using HTML5 language, and search engines and social networking sites first used it.

Due to recent development in mark up language mobile phone companies are looking forward to HTML5. In present time, HTML5 is in number three position, after iOS (Apple) and Android (Google), as the most ideal platform for mobile phones. It is forecasted by a research firm called ‘Strategy Analytics’ that sale of HTML5 compatible phones will reach up to 1 billion by 2013. The reason why HTML5 has become the most preferable one is due to its capability to build applications that can target all types of mobile platforms at a time. Mobile applications developed using HTML5 are more cost effective and easy to create than that of iOS, Android and Windows phones.