What does "name=3D" do?

Kevin & Robin,

I keep seeing posts lately that have "name=3D" in their code (or >> variations thereof). What is this? I'm not finding much on Google. >> Can someone give me use cases?
> > It's actually just "name", =3D is just something that mail clients add > for some reason. If you look at those messages again, you'll see =3D all > over the place.

=3D is how '=' is encoded in quoted-printable messages. 3D is the hex value of the ascii code for '='.

So what those messages were trying to write about is using the name='some value' parameter when creating widgets, but somebody got the 3D in as part of their quoting of previous message, or copy/paste or something.

  -- Robin Dunn

Ok. I thought that was what it was the first time I saw the 3D, but then I saw some posts yesterday that acted like "name=3D" was the greatest thing since sliced bread. I already knew about the "name" parameter from when I was messing with XRC.

Mike