I am excited by the prospects of flexbox, but disappointed by it as well. Maybe someone can correct me here, but when I started using flexbox it seemed to me l

I am excited by the prospects of flexbox, but disappointed by it as well. Maybe someone can correct me here, but when I started using flexbox it seemed to me like another case of the W3C being a day late and a dollar short. I mean, something like flexbox should have been the very first thing added to CSS, but here we are in 2013 and we can maybe, sort of use it, as long as we don't care about a vast number of people using IE. But even then, let's say you want to do something like have a resizable canvas or WebGL context. You know, like you can get with absolutely any other application toolkit. Now maybe I totally missed how to do this in my hours and hours of frustration, and if so the person who corrects me will have my undying gratitude. But how was it that the first thing I thought to do was to see if I can have a resizable canvas with other elements controls (ie a drawing application, or something else), and yet this sort of thing did not occur to the W3C in the years they spent working on the spec. Do those people develop applications or is it all just about creating documents that are slightly dynamic? And so now I'll probably have to wait until 2020 and the flexbox spec revision or something else until I can have contexts to draw to that will resize to fit their container, without going through all sorts of contortions to manually size then. Progress, ladies and gentlemen. Progress.