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According to iLounge, the Emerging Technology blog confirmed that the iPhone will not support either Java or Flash. The lack of Flash support would appear to preclude users from viewing content from sites such as YouTube that rely on the Adobe technology for video delivery, but Apple CEO Steve Jobs suggested recently that this will not be an issue.

In a recent interview

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with the New York Times, Jobs said that Flash is not necessary to show YouTube content.

"All you need to do is deal with YouTube," he said. "And plus, we could get 'em to up their video resolution at the same time, by using h.264 instead of the old codec."

Other details purportedly disclosed include support the draft HTML 5 specification, as well as established Web standards. Javascript, which has taken on a new significance since Apple designated it as the iPod phone's principle programming language, is limited to five seconds of runtime.

No Web page larger than 10MB can be displayed by the handset, and only eight pages can be loaded at the same time. Websites do not require any special coding to take advantage of multitouch features for zooming in and out, phone number identification and Google Maps links and automatic full-screen video playback.