These iChat 4 pages are coloured Gray and have the iChat 4 icon on them that was in use at the time, so you know where you are. The icon differs little from the Version 3 version.

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 In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superseded by Message and FaceTime. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.

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01 Multiple Buddy Lists

Nov 2008

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A New thing for iChat 4. This Picture is just to show you that you can open more than one Buddy List that logs into the AIM Servers and different Jabber Servers.

They will all display the same Buddy picture that you set. The Buddy Lists that can Log into AIM can be set to Invisible which means you can seem to be Off Line to your Buddies but you can still call them. The Jabber List(s) and the Bonjour one can not do this.

They also will display the same Status Message unless the ones that Login to AIM are set to Invisible then that will show instead for that Buddy List

These all display the Screen Names and nothing is clear at this point as to AIM type of Jabber types. Bottom right is the Bonjour List which does have a title as such. IF you have only one Buddy List logged into a service then it will be named AIM or Jabber depending which service it is.

Next - The Name Displayed

Created with JAlbum 4.0.6

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Created October, 2008 Major Update/Edit October 2024.

 ©  Ralph Johns. Created October 2008

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Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document.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 Picture highlights that you can login to server Jabber Servers and the AIM servers several times.

5 of these Buddy List show the Logged in Screen Name as opposed to the Sevice it has Joined. The exception is the Bonjour one lower right.

Compatibility

As mentioned above this has had a major Edit/Update in September/October 2024 moving towards being fully HTML 5 compliant 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) should/may only see a text-based page which, while not the prettiest option, is still entirely usable.

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