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04/26/2007, 11:25am, EDT
Thursday, April 26th
New Leopard iChat feature surfaces
Apple has unveiled a new iChat feature that will make its way into Mac OS X Leopard when the operating system ships in October, noting that 'iChat Theater' will enable applications to communicate with audio and video during an iChat conference. "Since its introduction iChat has become the de facto Instant Messaging client on Mac OS X, allowing users to communicate using text, audio, and even video chat," writes Apple. "The new version of iChat in Leopard opens up these capabilities to other applications on the system, allowing those applications to provide content through an iChat session." The company offers examples, such as a user displaying a photo slide show while chatting with parents and two people collaborating on a document, discussing the details as one person makes changes and the other observes the result. The new features are made possible by a new Instant Message framework that ships with Leopard, allowing developers to access iChat 4.0 features from within applications, according to Apple.
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more deceiving headlines from MacNN. Are they a subsidiary of FOX maybe?? :P
The fact that some devs may have done so is not really "news." If MacNN had found a specific third-party product that now works with iChat, THAT would be news.
a really poor source of news.
make video chat work without port forwarding behind my router
and why doesn't osx just share the desktop, so I can show any application... not just ichat-enabled apps?
You should be able to do the same thing in OSX/Aqua, it's a descendant of NeXTstep.
(personally, I don't actually like iChat, I use AdiumX instead)