Posted by Toby Inkster on 09/29/97 11:52

Jonathan N. Little wrote:

>> for filename in *.jpg *.gif *.png; ##list all images in directory
>> do
>> <img src=images/"${filename}" width="190">
>> done
>
> Sorry, no can do. HTML is only markup not scripting, to do what you wish
> *requires* a script either server-side (best) PHP, Perl, Python, ASP,
> ColdFusion, ... or client-side (not-so-good) JavaScript.

Client-side Javascript won't do -- it has no way of reading the contents
of a directory on the server.

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