KBK update for Sunday, 1st August

Because Magsat “flying magnet” switches are so unusual, and so difficult to explain, I felt that such an interesting design justified a set of illustrations showing how the switches operate. A set of diagrams to this effect is now posted to the Magsat page.

As with all my other diagrams, they are in SVG format. In Waterfox, Waterfox Classic mostly manages to render them OK, but all the arrowheads are missing (which is a new bug). Microsoft Edge draws the arrowheads, but it renders numerous lines in the wrong place or in a “low resolution” look, leaving a fuzzy and indistinct image, and Chrome will likely do the same. The inability to get a simple diagram rendered properly is the icing on the cake of an afternoon and evening of Inkscape 1.1 constantly crashing, as it does on most work now. The 21st century is a long way away yet.

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