Why would meta description text get added to the meta HTTP-EQUIV tag?

[alankoen123]

For one of my clients, the people coding the site added the meta description content to the HTTP-EQUIV tag as part of the "name" attribute. Curious if anyone has seen this practice before?!  I notified them that the description meta tag was not coded properly -- the search engines do not interpret the "name" attribute and the text that is in it. Anyway,  It looks like:

**<meta http-equiv="<a class="attribute-value">Content-Type</a>" content="<a class="attribute-value">text/html; charset=utf-8</a>" name="... <a class="attribute-value">and services.
... .</a>" />**

[HandsomeWeb]

I would insist on a typical description tag.  That may work, but I, and you, know the typical description tag works.  If someone has a new way of doing something that changes something you know works, you should play it safe unless there is a clear gain.