These iChatAV (Version 2) pages are coloured Green and have the iChat 2 icon on them that was in use at the time, so you know where you are. The icon differs from Version 1 by having the camera logo added.

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 In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superseded by Messages. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.

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07 iChat 2 Format Menu

Oct 2008

7 Format Menu Picture

This is the iChat 2 Format Menu. Like other iChat Menus the active items change depending which window is the front one.

With any Text chat window to the fore most items in this one will become active. It basically allows you to change the Font, style it and colour it differently to your global settings (in iChat Menu > Preferences > Messages) of any letter, word or phrase in any IM as you type it and at least before you Send it. Basically you can override your Font and colour and Bold or Underline or italicise a letter, word or phrase. You can make the choices before you type or highlight an item or change it afterwards just like any Word Processor application's function - but before you press Enter to send it.

As far as your Buddy is concerned they will see at least the colour choices. They will only see the Font Choice if they have it as well.

You cannot override your global Bubble Colour (or the Plain Text alternative background colour).

The Next menu is The Window Menu

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Information Block

This site is about iChat from Version 1 through to iChat 5.x.x
Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document. Some small tense changes have been made but the content is by and large untouched.

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

The sections below will change for Specifics about info on the page on view

About This Page

Access to changing the Font, it's Style and it's Colour at any IM point where you are typing in a Text chat of any sort.

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.