Does anyone know what benefits echoing a header with PHP has to just using plain text?
Example
Some WordPress themes (including Sandbox) use something similar to the following in the sidebar.
<h3><?php _e('Subscribe:'); ?></h3>
What makes this better than:
<h3>Subscribe:</h3>
Any takers?

2 Comments
It’s for internationalising the theme. When you use this syntax instead of plain text, you can easily make a translation using POEDIT.
Please, when you create a superb theme do code it that way, so we can translate it soon to french…
Pierre K. - Thank you for the explanation. I will try to keep this in mind and check my themes in the next updates.
BTW, Stephane has translated the latest versions of IAMWW w2 DnD and Moo-Point to French.