You may remember from a few weeks ago lots of buzz around the net regarding Internet Explorer 8 and their “opt-in” tag for rendering web pages (if not, A List Apart has two articles of opposing viewpoints by Jeremy Keith and Jeffrey Zeldman).

Today, the IE team has reversed that decision and decided to go with standards mode rendering by default. This is great news and will score Microsoft more points with developers than I think they realize (the Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design comes to mind).

You can read more coverage of this story at Ajaxian or Slashdot. John Resig has some things to say about the decision as well.