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

While [[1]] and [[2]] 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 [[3]], [[4]] 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 [calc()] arrives, this will be possible on web pages as well, to some extent. For now, we have to resort to other means.