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 In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superseded by Message and FaceTime. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.

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iChat 4 Pictures Status Messages

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03 Status Messages Custom.

Nov 2008

3 Custom Option

This is the iChat 4 Status Messages Custom Edit point.

The Status Messages can be changed.

Choosing the Custom Available or Away option shown in the first picture in this series will give you access to type a New Message. The one in the picture will be an Away Message (it currently has a red blob). It will change your Status to whichever Custom choice you select.

If you have chosen the Save Messages option in the Edit pane (Previous Picture) then this will also be saved otherwise it will only last while you have it showing or until iChat is Quit.

A Change. Typing the keystroke equivalents of Smileys will display as those text symbols at your end as you type it in iChat 4 - but will turn into Smileys at everyone else's end that can see you On-line and at your end as well now. See also page 11 Status Messages

The Next section would be About the Firewall

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Created October, 2008 Major Update/Edit October 2024.

 ©  Ralph Johns. Created October 2008

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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Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document.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

The Message area becomes a Text enry field if you select a "Custom" choice in the first pane/piture in this series.

You can change whether it is an Away or an Available Message

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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