Internet Explorer 8 not fully retarded after all

Hooray! The IE dev team has buckled under the delighted backlash of web developers world wide and announced that IE8 will render in standards mode by default. As they cheerfully note themselves, this is a blatant retraction of their earlier announcement, which essentially required developers to explicitly force IE8 to not render like it's retarded siblings.

This is pretty heartwarming, especially since Microsoft has a pretty terrible track record for listening to web developers. Backpedaling on this extremely stupid decision is a welcome change to the typical "well, we're the guys eating paint chips for lunch, so it defintely makes sense to us!" stance.

I do secretly wonder what the catch is. Given their track record, They'll probably break something. Like ACID2 compliance :(