The following test was born out of pure frustration from trying to eliminate the extra spacing between frames while still using valid markup. Conclusion: not possible. At least not for now. No recommendations are made through this test other than for my own work and to my own clients. Thoughts and commentary are all included in a relevant log entry created on March 4, 2003: SWF seeking VWM.
| no attributes load frameset | frameborder="0" load frameset | framespacing="0" load frameset | frameborder="0" framespacing="0" load frameset |
border="0" load frameset | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mac | |||||
| Camino .7 | 6 px | none | 6 px | none | none |
| IE 5.2 | 6 px | → 2 px | → 4 px | none | 6 px |
| Netscape 7 | 6 px | none | 6 px | none | none |
| OmniWeb 4.1 | 6 px | 6 px | 6 px | 6 px | none |
| Opera 6 | 2 px | 2 px | 2 px | 2 px | none |
| Safari v.60 | 4 px | none | 4 px | none | none |
| Win | |||||
| IE 5.0/5.5 | 2 px | 2 px | none | none | none |
| IE 6 | 2 px | 2 px | none | none | none |
| Mozilla 1.2 | 6 px | none | 6 px | none | none |
| Netscape 4.08 | 6 px | 6 px | 6 px | 6 px | none |
| Netscape 6/7 | 6 px | none | 6 px | none | none |
| Opera 7 | 2 px | 2 px | none | none | none |
| Phoenix .5 | 6 px | none | 6 px | none | none |