Time and time again I'm reading about a very interesting CSS property on MDN only to see that MDN considers some values it can take "experimental", recommends against using it in production and warns that its behavior may change in the future.
Two examples: width: max-content
and display: contents
.
- What does it precisely mean that a property or value is 'experimental'? Is it a status given to such a keyword by MDN or is it an official status given to this keyword by an appropriate standarization body (W3C perhaps?)
- Where can I find if MDN's warnings are not out-of-date? For example for
max-content
, MDN links to this standard document, but I can see no warnings about the experimental nature in the paragraph aboutmax-content
- perhaps the whole document MDN linked to is experimental?
Context: I'm asking because I'd dearly like to use both width: max-contents
and display: contents
, both seem to make my life so much simpler, and I'm wondering if (a) it's OK to use them, (b) I shouldn't use them, (c) I really really shouldn't use them?