What Is Webkit In CSS3? And Why Is It Used?

[dennis123]

What Is Webkit In CSS3? And Why Is It Used?

[crackersguru]

Webkit is a core software component which is responsible for rendering HTML and CSS in browsers like Safari and Chrome. There are other similar rendering engines like Gecko for Mozilla, Presto for Opera, and Edge for IE.

To enable Webkit on a web page, it requires prefixing the <-webkit> keyword with CSS values.

Here is an example CSS using the Webkit feature.

CSS
.box_shadow {
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px 0px #ffffff;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px 0px #ffffff;
}

[charlottegracie]

Webkit is the rendering engine used in the popular browsers Safari and Chrome, as well as others. ... Webkit is the html/css rendering engine used in Apple's Safari browser, and in Google's Chrome. css values prefixes with -webkit- are webkit-specific, they're usually CSS3 or other non-standardised features.

[Softgrip]

WebKit is a layout engine designed to allow web browsers to render web pages. The WebKit engine provides a set of classes to display web content in windows, and implements browser features such as following links when clicked by the user, managing a back-forward list, and managing a history of pages recently visited.

WebKit was originally created as a fork of KHTML as the layout engine for Apple's Safari; it is portable to many other computing platforms. It is also used in Google's Chrome Browser.

WebKit's WebCore and JavaScriptCore components are available under the GNU Lesser General Public License, and the rest of WebKit is available under a BSD-style license.