Facebook disabled iPad mobile Safari zooming?

It seems to have been re-enabled now. Happy zooming returns !!!

I think the thing I want most on my iPad is a Noscript extension where I can pick and choose the javascript. These sites get so bloated just collecting information on you that that can be a bear on the iPad. Facebook is one of the worst like this, which is why everyone is crying for an official app, and people use Friendly or that other one.

I would like the option to swap my User agent string as well, on a per site basis, without jailbreaking.

I guess I'll be accessing Facebook through Flipbook even more. Oh, and I just had a thought! I'll see even fewer of Facebook's ads! Way to go, guys!

I've noticed this too, and I suspect it's about ads as well. The odd thing is the way it is on my ipad the ads are cut off and I can't resize it to fit. Guess they forgot about portrait vs landscape.

One more thing. The scrolling tool on FB is disabled too. To bypass this, I did what learned in one of the several Taw's tips: scroll with two fingers on lists like 'friends' and others.

As an amateur, I only took hand to the accessibility tool and did zooming with three fingers. Not a pretty solution, at all, but works, wathever was the FB developer willings.

maybe its a precursor to a Facebook app coming out. they've disabled the zoom to make us want a better way to view the content

try http://touch.facebook.com
Maybe they are building a separate web view just for tablets (maybe to use inside an iOS app, who knows...)

I would assume this is just to stop people from zooming in and cropping off all the advertising etc that is in the column on the far right.

I first saw this and immediately assumed they just broke it, would be interesting if they had done it on purpose. Either way - it is a fail on their part.