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Paul Carmelo Cunanan
Courses Plus Student 8,862 Points-Webkit
What does -webkit mean? and what does it do?
2 Answers
James Barnett
39,199 Points-webkit is a vendor prefix it refers to CSS property that only works in Chrome, Safari, Android (and recently Opera) browsers.
You can read all about vendor prefixes here: http://webdesign.about.com/od/css/a/css-vendor-prefixes.htm
Jason Founts
Courses Plus Student 14,384 Points-webkit is a "vendor prefix" for the webkit based browsers. It is prefixed before a CSS property that hasn't been fully accepted by all browsers. For example, -webkit-transform property is used for the new 3D transform functionality being made available via CSS. "Vendor prefixes" are also available for microsoft (-ms), mozilla firefox (-mozilla) and others. A good resource for determining if a vendor prefix is needed is http://caniuse.com
Hope this helps.