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 In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superseded by Messages. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.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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01 iChat 2 Menu

Oct 2008

1 Application (iChat) Menu Picture

This is the iChat 2 Applciation Menu and as I have shown, by leaving it poking out to the left, it is the one top left next to the Apple Menu icon.

Most often you will use this to access the Preferences and to Log in or Out of one or other of the "Services". By Services I mean either AIM or the Rendezvous way of Instant Messaging with Text, Audio or Video. The lines will read Log In or Log Out depending on the current state.

The actual Services option is to link iChat with various parts of the OS if they will.

It has a Link to a page at Apple about providing Feedback. The page itself allows you to choose drop downs to specify which OS version and which iChat Version and a free text box to explain the issue or make "Wish List" Statements. It should be noted though there are unlikely to be any changes to Panther or iChat 2 at this time.

Although there is a Shop for Products link I have never known it lead anywhere in any version.

There are two options to Hide ether all the iChat windows that are open or windows of Other apps.

The Next menu to the right is The File 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Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document.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 Application Menu. It just reads iChat and does not specify here that it is iChat 2 (or in fact iChatAV it's offical name). That is in the About iChat option.

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.