I knew about this line and was not sure, thought it does not hurt to keep it. Are you sure it is absolutely useless now in all browsers?
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jjbte
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I don’t know about all browsers (past and current), but I think declaring the language in the html tag is sufficient, and it is the suggested method from W3C for declaring a site’s language.
Plus you have the hreflang tags declaring the other available languages for any given page. On a side note, I just read a Google article stating a page should have hreflang tags for all languages, including the current language. This seems counter-intuitive to me because of the included rel=”alternate” portion of the hreflang tag. How can a page be an “alternate” to itself? I guess the point is to list ALL available languages for a page, regardless of which one is currently active.
I updated the code in 3.0 with this suggestions. Thank you very much.