New Facebook homepage layout - perfect for iPad

[Gymgenius]

After initial disgust, the new facebook layout (normal site) is beginning to grow on me, as I imagine how good it's going to look on an iPad.

Anyone else think it's ideally suited to browsing on iPad (in portrait mode)?

 

[Sketh]

I thought this new layout and the previous one would look great on the iPad.

Assuming the chat menu scrolls on the bottom like it's supposed to, instead of floating in mid page.

 

[t0mat0]

I'd imagine that the iPad Facebook app will have more adaption for the iPad, and the majority of iPad users will use the app, rather than using the web site.

 

[bozzykid]

I'd imagine that the iPad Facebook app will have more adaption for the iPad, and the majority of iPad users will use the app, rather than using the web site.

I'm not sure how many resources they will put into an iPad app if the website version works well. Right now they don't even seem to be putting a lot of resources into the iPhone app which seems to have lots of issues with many users. I feel sure they will have a working app on the iPad someday, but I don't quite see them coming up with a full blown large screen interface by launch date.

 

[Gav2k]

That would be because the fella that done the app has stepped down and only works on the app a little bit.

 

[mullman]

That would be because the fella that done the app has stepped down and only works on the app a little bit.

I usually prefer http://touch.facebook.com/ on my iPhone.
Works great.

I can't find it right now, but Joe Hewitt (who wrote the FB app) has said somewhere he was possibly interested in coming back to code on the iPad.

"As a developer, it’s a bit sad losing the ability to come up with crazy plugins and daemons and system-level utilities, but I believe it’s a tradeoff worth making. What people are overlooking is that the Internet is an integral part of the iPhone OS, and it is the part of the OS you can tinker with to your heart’s delight. If you want to invent a new scripting language or background service or something, you’re still totally free to do that, but you’re going to have to run it on a web server. If you want total freedom on the client side, then write a web app. You’re simply no longer going to be able to tempt users into installing software that corrupts their computer."
-Joe Hewitt via emergent by design.

 

[iWoz]

After initial disgust, the new facebook layout (normal site) is beginning to grow on me, as I imagine how good it's going to look on an iPad.

Anyone else think it's ideally suited to browsing on iPad (in portrait mode)?

Agreed! Im not to keen on the web version of facebook at the moment, Only really use it on my iPhone

 

[t0mat0]

I have been completely satisfied with what Apple announced. iPad is exactly the product I've been wishing for ever since I wrapped my mind around the iPhone and its constraints. While the rumor mill was churning with all kinds of crazy possibilities for the Apple tablet, I mostly rolled my eyes, because I felt strongly that all Apple needed to do to revolutionize computing was simply to make an iPhone with a large screen. Anyone who feels underwhelmed by that doesn't understand how much of the iPhone OS's potential is still untapped.

http://joehewitt.com/post/ipad/

Of all the platforms I've developed on in my career, from the desktop to the web, iPhone OS gave me the greatest sense of empowerment, and had the highest ceiling for raising the art of UI design. Except there was one thing keeping me from reaching that ceiling: the screen was too small.

At some point I came to the conclusion that Facebook on iPhone OS could not truly exceed the website until I could adapt it to a screen size closer to a laptop.

eriously, if you're a developer and you're not thinking about how your app could work better on the iPad and its descendants, you deserve to get left behind.

So, in the end, what it comes down to is that iPad offers new metaphors that will let users engage with their computers with dramatically less friction. That gives me, as a developer, a sense of power and potency and creativity like no other. It makes the software market feel wide open again, like no one's hegemony is safe. How anyone can feel underwhelmed by that is beyond me.

Facebook today announced 100 million FB users are using mobile services, up from 65 million last September.
So they've got 100 million mobile, of a total of around 400 million. So 1 in 4, or 25% are using mobile - that's nothing to sniff at.

he mobile websites m.facebook.com and touch.facebook.com (which is optimized for smartphones like the iPhone) have been redesigned

http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/10/facebook-mobile-stats/

 

[Gymgenius]

I'd imagine that the iPad Facebook app will have more adaption for the iPad, and the majority of iPad users will use the app, rather than using the web site.

I'd rather use the website than the app on iPad - especially with the new format of the homepage.