[Sacho]

Uh, there is in fact, an absolute(position:absolute). It has caveats, but doesn't XAML? The 'certain location' bit is actually quite complex:

- how is it supposed to adapt to different resolutions?

- is an inner absolute component allowed to escape its container?

- how does it layer with other components?

The CSS required to position an element at an absolute location must take all of these into consideration, and I'm not sure how much better a native toolkit can make it.