Re: <HP> and HTML history

At this distant remove, if I had to guess based on what I now know, I'd presume the following:

1) It's origin is probably from some other long forgotten SGML doctype that never caught on.
2) In that other SGML doctype, it probably was used to support a now ancient HP printer that used the G0 to G3 graphic character sets of ISO 2022 to switch between plain, italic, bold, and bold italic.
3) If so, it was an empty tag and not a container.

On May 21, 2019, at 13:48, Jens Oliver Meiert <jens@meiert.com> wrote:

> 1) Was HP ever used by itself or were only HP0 (roman), HP1 (italic), HP2 (bold), and HP3 (bold italic) ever used?
> 2) Was it a container like B or an empty tag similar to BASEFONT?
> 3) Was it ever implemented by Mosaic? (I think I can safely exclude IE and Navigator, as ever having implemented them.)
> 4) What was the origin of this element?

Regarding 4), http://www.the-pope.com/hpn.html (not sure about that
site but it much looks like authentic documentation from the early
days of HTML) seems to provide some information.

I’m curious about 1)–3), too, hence bumping up this 2003 message that
seems to never have received a response :)

-- 
Jens Oliver Meiert
https://meiert.com/en/

Received on Wednesday, 22 May 2019 14:11:16 UTC