The Old New Thing

Microspeak: Redlines

December 2, 2014 Dec 2, 2014 12/2/14

Raymond Chen

To the outside world, redline can mean to mark something for removal, or it could mean the maximum safe speed of an engine. But in the world of Microsoft design, the term redlines (pronounced as if it were written as the two words red lines, but the accent is on the red) refers to a diagram showing the exact position of visual elements. They ...