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An external link is just that - a link to an external site. You have no control over it's appearance. If the external site is written to allow scaling, you can have scaling. If it does not, you can't.

When you load the external site, it replaces your document.

Opening it in the phone's default browser won't help. It's still an external site that you have no control over.

Thanks, but what I'm looking to do is allow the user to 'pinch' the content to zoom as they would in a browser.

If the link opened in the default browser they could browse at whatever scale they wish but the ideal solution is to open content within the app itself :)

Again - if it is external content, you have no control over it. You are at the mercy of however the external site coded it. When you link to an external site, you completely lose control. The user might not even be able to get back to your content if the external site has blocked "back". Once you link to the external site, jQuery Mobile isn't even loaded any more (unless the site uses JQM itself, but then you will have THEIR copy of JQM loaded.)

I don't recommend ever linking to an external site within PhoneGap. Open it in the native browser, using "target="_blank". Then, if the external site allows scaling, the user can scale. If it doesn't they can't. The external site is what the external site is.

You can use a popup with the iframe option, but I haven't had much luck with that.