I noticed that the demo, 'mobile form inputs' wasn't showing input type-specific keyboards that I'd expect on my iPad, and went looking for a solution.

The solution is to use a <form> tag.

Now, for instance, my <input type='search' ....> tag renders an input box with an associated search keyboard with a 'Search' button in place of the 'Return' button.

Hello Adam,

This is indeed so, the older iOS versions below 5 only support newer input types in a form. We'll fix the demo to reflect that and I've updated your points for the find.

Kind regards,
Kamen Bundev
the Telerik team