<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I don't know of any difference in the connotation of the two words, but "location" would probably sound a bit odd to anyone who spends a lot of time with graphics code. If you want to also be explicit about an object's orientation, "translation" is also a synonym for position/location that you might use.<div><br></div><div>You might also want to bug Dan Amelang from Viewpoints to see if he's recently written anything about Gezira (roughly speaking, a more advanced version of Cairo).</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Josh</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 17, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Michael van der Gulik wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi all.<br><br>I'm (still) designing a new Canvas API (<a href="http://gulik.pbwiki.com/Canvas">http://gulik.pbwiki.com/Canvas</a>).<br><br>When describing screen coordinates, which is a better term to use: "location" or "position"? Is there a technical difference between these words that I don't know about?<br> <br>Gulik.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><a href="http://people.squeakfoundation.org/person/mikevdg">http://people.squeakfoundation.org/person/mikevdg</a><br><a href="http://gulik.pbwiki.com/">http://gulik.pbwiki.com/</a> <br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>