Is it (width, height) or (height, width)?

Question

Is there a convention for order (height, width) in function arguments or when displaying dimensions?

Answer 1

I don’t know a huge number of languages, but I used (width, height). This is more appropriate along the coordinate lines (x, y).

Answer 2

I would say (width, height) in the vast majority of cases. This never stops making it explicit, though (by naming arguments, etc.)

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

At the door and up the stairs. That mnemonics was taught for cartographic coordinates.

Answer 7

Screen resolution is also usually specified in "width × height".

Wikipedia Link to Display Resolution