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 In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superseded by Messages. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.

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06 iChat 2 Visible Invites

Oct 2008

6 Visible Invite Picture

This is the iChat 2 Incoming Visible Video Chat Invite window

This one says it is a Video chat. The Audio only one looks the same at this point. Video Invites appear top center of the Screen as Incoming chats and Audio Only chats appear top right of the Screen. You cannot change these Invite appearance locations.

When you click on the Invite your end will expand to show the Accept or Deny set of Buttons and the Option to Block the Buddy. Clicking accept will expand the window into the relevant type. The Audio Chat displays a Volume bar and the Video will show your your Preview with the phrase about waiting for your Buddy across the top. The resulting Video window will move to where you last had the window open. (Hopefully under the camera so it looks like your looking into it.)

Text chats tend to show a similar start part then expand into the chat window so you can read the Invite message and has the Accept and Deny and Block options.

Next is the Outgoing Invite window

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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Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document.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

How Incoming Invites appear.

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.