Nav list seperators - pipe or pic?

[fleetwood]

When seperating a list of nav links thus:

link | link | link

are there any accessibility or other issues that dictate the use of a gif image (as most Actinic styles use) as opoposed to simply using the keyboard '|' (pipe)?

[jont]

I tend to go for the | option as will render if the user has images turned off and should be fractionally quicker to load than a GIF image. Aligning text alongside images can be a pain (specially if not tabled) so they use of plain text for me is preferable.

In v8 I thought most of the NAV separators were plain text and not images ... although tend to start with a clean install and not the themed layouts.

[fleetwood]

Cheers Jont.
I also favour the good old | - I just wondered why Act went for the images (I think they are still there in 8, but will have to double check when back in front of my V8 PC).

[leehack]

Its probably to add the padding either side as they wish i would imagine.

[jont]

I think in v8 they are using the pipe with some very nifty   to pad out the display ... which is nice in a world of CSS

[leehack]

Its probably an old design inheritance thingymajig where the shim.gif was your friend.

[jont]

where the shim.gif was your friend.

That still makes an amazing appearance in the product layouts - that is one of the first things to go when I convert to a full CSS layout.