Facebook in iPad: UIWebView - renders as touch instead of standard web

Question

Up until a few days ago it worked fine: opening facebook.com in iPad/UIWebView rendered as standard web. Now Facebook is force-rendered as touch - as if the URL was http://touch.facebook.com. This happens regardless of the UIWebView frame size. Here is a simple code for the main view controller to see the problem:

UIWebView *wv = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.frame];
NSURLRequest *req = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL  URLWithString:@"http://www.facebook.com"]];
[wv loadRequest: req];
[self.view addSubview: wv];

I tried changing the user agent as suggested here - no good.

I can't reproduce your problem. This code opens the regular frontpage on my iPad. — nschum, Jul 31 '10 at 08:03
When you login and see the wall - does it render as standard web? — Tal Yaniv, Jul 31 '10 at 09:08
To add more info, no when I login and view the group wall the page is still in the Touch version of facebook. — davis, Oct 22 '11 at 03:21
I can't reproduce this issue either, can you provide more details on steps reproduce? — Colin Smillie, Oct 23 '11 at 15:18

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 27 '11 at 00:09

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Using http://www.facebook.com?m2w should resolve this. "m2w" sounds like it is short for "mobile 2 web", and it's the link that you arrive at when you click "full site" from the mobile site.

answered Dec 27 '11 at 00:09

Ryan Patterson

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