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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Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document.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 Edit menu. Checks and alterations to what you are typing in Text chat. A text chat window of some sort has to be open for these to be active.
Spelling can be checked. Smilieys can be added from there. Hyperlinks can be made and added to a Text hear.
There is a Caution about accepting Hyperlinks in general with a link to a Wikipedia Page about the first Mac infection of Malware that used iChat's Bonjour abilities to spread.
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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