Microsoft's Interoperability Principles and IE8
We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously.
- Dean Hachamovitch on the IEBlog
This is great news, kudos to the Microsoft team for listening to the community and changing their approach.
(for more background see Jeremy Keith and Jeffery Zeldman's articles in issue 253 of A List Apart)