asp.net: vs_targetSchema meta tag (and others) no longer required

Recently I was migrating legacy asp.net pages (v1.1) to 2.0 and noticed the following code snippet in every header:

  <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.1" />
  <meta name="CODE_LANGUAGE" content="C#" />
  <meta name="vs_defaultClientScript" content="JavaScript" />
  <meta name="vs_targetSchema" content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5" />

Apparently the tags had been used in the past for design-time html support/validation. They’re no longer required if using Visual Studio 2005 or higher.

Some more good info at: http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t97952-can-i-remove-this-meta-tag.html