mskala

Those options seem to be OPTION tags inside a SELECT tag on the HTML form. What's wrong with putting the SELECTED attribute on the one corresponding to the default selection? That is documented by W3C as the correct way of specifying a default in a SELECT dropdown, and in fact what the system currently does (leaving no option pre-selected) is what W3C says page authors "should" not do. I don't think it'd be too hard to also make the default setting be the first one listed, for browsers that might not pay attention to the SELECTED attribute. It shouldn't be any harder than the current behaviour of setting an attribute to grey out lower-than-minimum levels. Obviously there will be some browsers in the world that ignore both hints, but I think it's reasonable to expect a browser to do the right thing if you implement them both, and it doesn't seem like that would be hard to do.