That syntax came from MIME and has been present in email, newsgroups and the web for as long as I can remember. The server sends content-type headers delimited with MIME attributes, the browser sends accept headers and inside the pages one will often find a meta tag with its content attribute delimited that way.
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semicolon-delimited attr value, and "camcorder"!
Great to see that the future is being ushered in in a coordinated, organized, well-thought-out manner. Ugh.
That syntax came from MIME and has been present in email, newsgroups and the web for as long as I can remember. The server sends content-type headers delimited with MIME attributes, the browser sends accept headers and inside the pages one will often find a meta tag with its content attribute delimited that way.