Today we’ve seen two notable browser releases. The first one highlighted is a release of Skyfire for the iPad. The Flash-capable mobile browser converts Flash to HTML5 which is supported by the iPhone and iPad, as this is the primary reason the browser gained so much success early on.

“To users, this means a slight delay before the video starts playing, but it also leads to more efficient playback as SkyFire’s compression is on average 75 percent more efficient than standard Flash video.”

In addition to Flash video support, Skyfire for the iPad also features Twitter and Facebook account management options, a built-in RSS feed reader and G-Reader support, as well as a toolbar ‘Like’ button and Facebook users’ story popularity statistics.

Besides Skyfire’s new release, Opera also released the latest version of Opera 11 today.  It features extensions, tab stacking and visual mouse gestures, a new –email panel, update checker and perhaps most notably, HTML5 support.

While today’s Opera release isn’t directly related to the mobile sector, the company has been quite proactive in the mobile scene, especially for Android devices.  In general, mobile browsing is taking a lead in many ways, with some able to access the web through mobile browsing only. This report reveals that while only 20% of users in developed countries access the web via mobile devices only, 50% of developing countries’ mobile internet users access the web via mobile only.