User:Wvengen@nikhef.nl/Web design:Flexible layout

While CSS and XHTML have brought much good, it can still be troublesome to create a desired page layout. When creating web applications, it's often desirable to have it scale properly to the user's browser size. In GUI toolkits (like GTK, Swing and many more) there is the concept of layout containers, which distribute the available space over its children in a pretty sensible manner, with preferred sizes and min/max criteria. When CSS3's calc() arrives, this will be possible on web pages as well, to some extent. For now, we have to resort to other means.