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 In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superseded by Messages. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.

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iChatAV (Version 2) Pictures

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04 iChat 2 View Menu

Oct 2008

4 View Menu Picture

This is the iChat 2 Edit 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"

As you can see you can Show Buddy Pictures and their Audio or Video Status.

The lower items tend to be Active when a text chat of some sort is the Front window so that you can again choose if the Buddies in a Chat show their Picture, Name or both - which can be handy in Group Chats if you over-ride incoming Font and Bubble Colour choices..

A Group chat window has a pop out drawer that can be shown or hidden that holds the Participants.

The default display of the IM messages is the famous iChat Bubbles but there is a option to display as Text only. This puts all parties on the left and each has a Coloured bar that the text appears in based on their Bubble Colour. Font Choices still apply.

The Next menu is The Buddies 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Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document.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 View Menu. The Active items change depending which of the iChat windows are the Front one.

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.