<body> Within <noframes>

I don't like frames/iframes but have a situation where my hand is forced. It's been a very.long.time since I worked with them. (I do know how to do <object> and write to <div>, it just won't work in this situation. Client editing won't allow it.)

I know the <body> element within <noframes> is not required, funny thing is, it still validates either way:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" 
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd"> 
<html lang="en"> 
<head> 
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> 
 <title>Untitled</title> 
 <meta name="Description" content=""> 
 <meta name="keywords" content=""> 
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href=""> 
 <link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> 
 <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> 
</head> 
<frameset rows="50%,*"> 
 <frame src=""> 
 <frame src=""> 
 <noframes> 
 <body> 
 <p>Don't just say your browser doesn't support 
 frames. Put content here.</p> 
 </body> 
 </noframes> 
</frameset> 
</html>

Validated in XHTML too, not doing any extending and target server doesn't output text/xhtml headers, don't need XHTML.

Pro with no body: 15 characters less, including newlines.

Pro with body: CSS styles will still apply to the <noframes> content (probably . . . .)

What do you think? I searched, found mixed opinions . . . .

<body> Within <noframes>

Stupid Q from someone who should know the answer . . . .

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