Seriously not impressed by the generalization that interns are the ones responsible for "making the web a terrible place." So as soon as that same developer takes a position as a full-timer they're magically imbued with all the best practices and knowledge required to run a great website?
Also, you just admitted that your own place of work serves large images. Let's not throw blame around that we're not willing to take ourselves.
> you just admitted that your own place of work serves large images. Let's not throw blame around that we're not willing to take ourselves.
Yes, it happens at my place of work, and that is where my generalization came from. I intended to indicate that even when taking steps to mitigate the issue, it still crops up because it's a hard problem to fix. Eventually, work gets delegated to people that don't know everything they should. It is not a big deal as long as people are learning from it.
It happens when we assign web tasks to interns "and non-webdev staff" without proper education/training. So if you follow Toyota's "five whys" rule, it is not the interns' fault at all.
Also, you just admitted that your own place of work serves large images. Let's not throw blame around that we're not willing to take ourselves.