Information Block
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 In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superceded by Messages. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.
This 2024 Edit/Update does make some tense changes to the Contents but mostly it stands as written. The general purpose of the update was to move, as much as possible to HTML 5 compliance where I could.
This site is about iChat from Version 1 through to iChat 5.x.x
It has a mixture of basic info and problem solving help.
This Information Block will change for Specifics about info on the page on view
About This Page
This is a Picture based index of the Menu item in iChat (1)
They start with the App Menu top left of the Screen and finish with the Window Menu which is one short of the Help Menu as you move across the Menus to the right
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.