It's an old fix to what I perceive as a non-problem [0]. When a user turns their iPhone to view it on Landscape - the site won't resize without that viewport meta tag being there.
Not sure if it's been fixed. Even if it hasn't, I question the amount of people who browse on their phones in Landscape.
I'm running under the assumption that you might not be the dev and that the dev may have added it there intentionally to fix the landscape bug. This post has the wrong tone without it being read more explanatory, so I felt this clarification necessary.
"Unintentional" as in "pretty sure it was an old copy-paste from another app and we forgot to take that line out" :) I don't like the scroll locking myself, even when applied "correctly".
Hopefully the site is at least navigable now on Mobile Safari. We will be revisiting the mobile experience soon. Had not been focusing much on it since the app is form-heavy and doesn't lend itself well to mobile, but for the marketing site we certainly need to focus on it more...first impressions are very important, and a broken page is not a good one! Thanks for your feedback.
Good to hear! I've seen enough cases of devs not bothering to explain why something is the way it is to marketers/management (it can be a hassle) and simply remove or add what is asked for. Wanted to make sure it was known why that was there.