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</h1> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <div class="taskboxtext"> <p>Adium's message display, "WebKit Message View" (WKMV), is powered by WebKit (
<a class="ext_link" href="https://trac.adium.im/wiki/WebKit">dedicated Adium Wiki entry
</a>;
<a class="ext_link" href="http://webkit.org/">official site
</a>), the same layout engine which drives Apple's Safari web browser. This allows Adium to support an incredible variety of beautiful message display styles, and allows web-savvy users to become developers of Adium's appearance without touching a line of code.
</p> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <div class="taskboxtext"> <p>.AdiumMessageStyle Xtras provide alternate message styles for Adium. By default, Adium contains seven message styles that can be configured from Adium's Messages preferences pane:
</p> <p>Hundreds of additional message styles are available from the
<a class="ext_link" href="http://xtras.adium.im/">Adium Xtras site
</a>, and can be installed by clicking the install link on the Xtra's page. To install a message style that you have already downloaded, simply doubleclick it. In either case, Adium will launch and put it into the correct place for you.
</p> <p>Information on making custom message styles is available at
<a class="ext_link" href="https://trac.adium.im/wiki/CreatingMessageStyles">CreatingMessageStyles
</a>.
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