Ralph Johns

These iChat (Version 1) pages are coloured Blue and have the iChat (1) icon on them that was in use at the time, so you know where you are. The icon differs from later ones by having the Running Man.  

These pages have sat here since 2008 with no update. In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superceded by Messages. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.

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03 Rendezvous Screen

Oct 2008

3 Rendezvous Screen

When you Start Up iChat for the first time it runs through some Start Up Screens starting with this Screen.

After filling in your Screen Name and any Details to link it to the Address Book you will come to this Screen. This make two and two only Screen in the Start Up Screens of iChat (1).

This one asks you to confirm if you want to use Rendezvous. If you say yes you will get two Buddy Lists and the Rendezvous one will use your Address Book details as your Buddy name and find other Macs on your LAN with iChat running to populate the Buddy List for you.

What the App does in Rendezvous is take your Name from the Me Card in the Address Book and broadcast it to your potential Rendezvous Buddies. Their app does the same and you have no choice over the name seen. In work situations confusion can manifest itself if soome does not use their first name. For instance my father's given names were William Michael but most people knew him as Mike. People would have seen a William (surname) pop up and wonder who this person is as IT dept tend to use people's formal info when setting up accounts.

Your choices are Back to the main Picture index or Jump straight to the Menu set of pictures.

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©  Ralph Johns. Created October 2008

Revised and Edited Links and Content with corrections and updates Nov 19th 2024.

Information Block

These pages have sat here since 2008 with no update. In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superceded by Messages. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.

This 2024 Edit/Update does make some tense changes to the Contents but mostly it stands as written. The general purpose of the update was to move, as much as possible to HTML 5 compliance where I could.

This site is about iChat from Version 1 through to iChat 5.x.x

It has a mixture of basic info and problem solving help.

This Information Block will change for Specifics about info on the page on view

About This Page

The second and Last Start Up Screen in iChat (1) even though I created three picture in the sequence. It asks you if you want to use Rendezvous (Later to become Bonjour).

The panel itself has fairly clear instructions as to what it does and when to use Rendezvous. A local network can have upto 255 participants but the routing device will be oone of those. If used in a large company with more employees y9ou may not be able to see all of them.

Compatibility

As mentioned above this has had a major Edit/Update in September 2024 meaning that the Browsers listed below are likely to no longer work.

I have tested in Safari 18.1, Firefox 130.x and 131.0, Vivaldi 6.9.3447.48 and iCab 6.2.3 (All Mac Browsers) I don't have access to a PC let alone multiple browsers to test on.

The original pages worked with Win/IE 5.5 and later (should work in 5.0, but not confirmed), Firefox 2, Safari 3, Opera 9, iCab 3.02 and later, Mac/IE 5, Netscape 6 and later

Old browsers (IE version 4 or earlier, Netscape 4 or earlier) would only see a text-based page which, while not the prettiest option, is still entirely usable.