I think it's because the W3C comes up with some really stupid suggestions, so most people writing browsers tend to ignore it. For example, you aren't supposed to use <b>bold</b> tags anymore - you now have to do something like <div style="font-weight: bold">bold</div>. Please explain to me how that is an improvement.

CGI.pm has supported ; for quite some time - the CGI.pm distributed with Perl 5.00503 supports it; I'm not sure how long before that it was supported.

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Jason Rhinelander
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