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What HTML commands are allowed in AIM? (i.e. an IM, away message, profile, etc).
I know that AIM has a few of its own special “AIM commands” or whatever they are, but I want to know for something like a subprofile, where I can use real HTML (supposedly) as well.
Also, can I use fonts that are not given in SubProfile using HTML code? (i’d like to use Chiller and only Arial, comic sans, etc are available)
Thanks:)I haven’t tested this out yet, but the profile you can basically put almost any HTML tags in there by editing it externally. If you are willing to use RegEdit, you could change your away messages in there and add some html formatting…
I do not believe any HTML is allowed in Instant Messages.
You *can* use lots of html in both the IM window and the profile.
Your AIM profile is stored in info.htm in the folder name in either the
c:windowsaim95 folder (for Windows 95, 98, and ME) or
C:Documents and SettingsApplication DataAim (for Windows 2000/XP)
My info.htm is in C:Documents and SettingsAdministratorApplication DataAimom4eccvAlso, if you save any of your chats, you can open them up in an HTML editor and look at the code that AIM uses. It’s *all* html code.
As far as I know, images are not allowed in profiles. Other things, like tables, frames, and javascript aren’t allowed either. What I’ve found is that colors of fonts and backgrounds, along with formatting (center, align left, align right) are the few functions that AIM allows.
Inside of info.htm, you can link to other files. However, you have to use AIM 4.8 or higher to be able to load them in the profile window using the target=”_self” tag. Anything below AIM 4.8 loads a seperate page in your default web browser.
the reason the frame tags and the marquee tag and the scripting doesn’t work is because aim doesn’t function as an actual html interpretor its not even actually reading html standards it is reading rtf(rich text format) which is denoted with some of the more common html tags such as for color and background and url’s.
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