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 In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superseded by Message and FaceTime. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.

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07 Format Menu.

Nov 2008

7 Format Menu

This is the iChat 4 Format menu.

Yes, it is a short Menu.

This Menu gives you additional controls of the Font, style and colour of individual or sets of words (or even single letters) in a current Text Field entry point before sending the IM. It will not change the Bubble colour chosen in iChat > Preferences > Messages but can temporarily override the Font Choice and it's Colour.

When the IM is then sent the colours will hold and so will the Font choice if the Buddy has that Font as well. Bold, Underline and Italics work with any Font unless they are in a Bold or Italic form naturally. Hyperlinks (Edit Menu) are preselected to be Underlined and Blue which can not be overridden.

NOTE: The Buddy Listed in the Pic is one of the Apple Test Accounts and does not respond to Text Chats. No Text was sent in or for this Picture.

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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Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document.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

How to Format individual letters, words or phrases on an IM instance rather than the Chat as a whole.

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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