Where to find information about patterns in 2D layout positioning and measurement?

I would like to know the best practices/design patterns of layouting in 2D.

Must have reference to:

• absolute layout
• vertical layout
• horizontal layout

Components properties can be:

• width
• height
• minWidth
• minHeight
• maxWidth
• maxHeight
• top
• right
• bottom
• left
• x
• y
• horizontalAlign(left|center|right)
• verticalAlign(top|center|bottom)

Of course all these elements are not used for each component and are not used by all the layouts.

So for example I set a components width, height, top, ri开发者_高级运维ght it should automatically recognize its bottom and left values.

Then about all these implication about minWidth, minHeight.

It can have a reference to how to find the scroller position, to appear when is needed.

*this will be build in javascript

sounds like java's swing. they use layout managers. gwt has a similar set of widgets and containers. microsoft has always had some of this similar, it's latest is wpf.

these frameworks use composite, iterator, flyweight, observer/observable (m$ has delegate which naict is an observable), and maybe strategy.

users of a framework could use mediator.