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 In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superseded by Messages. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.

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03 iChat 2 Edit Menu

Oct 2008

3 Edit Menu Picture

This is the iChat 2 Edit Menu

Of the Dark text items that are active in this Picture they only show this way as they contain other items.

The others will only become active in this Menu if a Text Chat window is open. It is the menu place to add a Smiley or convert a highlighted word or phrase to a Hyperlink.

The Copy and Paste items work like they do in any other Application. (Edit 2024: A note about the Paste. The AIM servers used to have a limit as to the number of characters that could be sent. I seem to remember that it was about 265 characters. Slightly more could actually be sent so the 265 may have been a limit built into the AIM on PC app. A large amount of text would be better sent as a file).

The Next menu is The View 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Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document.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 Edit Menu. As we most Edit Menus the basics are based around the typing features of the app. In this case the items became active when a Text Chat window is open.

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.