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 In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superseded by Messages. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.

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05 iChat 2 Buddies Menu

Oct 2008

5 Buddies Menu Picture

This is the iChat 2 Buddies Menu. Like other iChat Menus the active items change depending which Window is the front one. In this particular one the Buddy List was "Front" allowing access to the Add Buddy screens and the Screens involved in changing your own Buddy Pic

Some items become active if a Buddy is highlighted in the Buddy List depending on the capabilities of that Buddy.

The lowest two items tend to be come active when an Invite shows ups.

The Next menu is The Video 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Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document.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

The Buddies menu. Deals with what you can do when a Buddy is highlighted in the Buddy List as a means of contact method (greyed out in this Pic).

When the Buddy list is the front window and no Buddy is highlighted only the Add Buddy and Change pic items are active as shown.

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.