Okay, I'll start by saying that I'm not a big fan of frames. There are a bunch of issues, from usability to printing to bookmarking. But, sometimes frames can be a good solution (mostly in web applications). Some of the problems when using frames occur when you'd like the site to validate, or if you'd like to control the appearance of the frames.
Zeldman points to Douglas Bowman's Frame Border/Spacing Test. The page details the behaviour of a variety of browsers when one of five frameset attributes are used. Guess what? There isn't a whole lot of consistency.
In Bowman's commentary on the test, he basically concludes that the only option is to "give up validation for the frameset file."
Posted by Karl
March 4, 2003 03:20 PM