Yeah... on a Droid you have to follow Brian's suggestion first.
You can probably set the user agent of the iPad's browser to desktop instead of mobile device, then websites will automatically give you the full version of the site. I'd assume that you wouldn't really want the mobile version of any site on the iPad??
then the link will work. Otherwise it keeps forcing you to the mobile site. I'm guessing that is why the iPad browser won't work; as I think it doesn't let you choose the user agent.
on a Android device:
Open browser
Menu --> Settings
Uncheck the "Mobile View" box.
If you change the user agent to desktop you shouldn't need the link to switch to the full site, since the full site will load automatically.
I just switched my Android phone's browser user agent to iPad and the classic view link didn't work. I don't know if that means it won't work on a real iPad or not, but I figured it was worth mentioning.