> One of the issues I have had with "idea people," is that they think that every deviation from their Big Idea is "bikeshedding." That's probably a confusing e

> One of the issues I have had with "idea people," is that they think that every deviation from their Big Idea is "bikeshedding." That's probably a confusing example. I don't mean that implementers aren't doing anything. What I mean is something like this: the people who are building (or planning to build) a bike shed are often the last people to realize an obvious problem like a) the target audience is birds and b) birds don't ride bikes. My professed skill is that I can get people to shift to working on a birdhouse. That avoids the danger of ending up with something like a bike shed retrofitted with pneumatic tubes designed to pump in birds from the outside world. I'm not claiming this is a unique skill. But things like SVG's path arc syntax exist, so it's not ubiquitous.