Google于今日宣布了将停止支持Swiffy的消息,作为一款将。SWF(Adobe Flash)文件转换成HTML5格式的工具,它将于7月1号与大家告别。与此同时,Swiffy Flash扩展也将停止工作。Google AdWords应用程序接口(API)团队的Danial Klimkin在一篇博客文章中写到:“我们将结束Swiffy运行时,但你在截止日期前转换的任意文件都还可以继续播放”。
Google于5年前开放了Swiffy,最初只是作为谷歌实验室的一款产品而存在,旨在让Flash动画在未安装Adobe Flash的设备上工作。
微软、苹果等浏览器厂商,也都在鼓励大家减少Flash内容的使用、并转投HTML5,后者在安全、性能、web开发等方面有着更大的优势。
Google在今年2月份表示,从6月30号起,Flash展示的广告内容将不能再被上传到Adwords或DoubleClick数字营销平台上;而DoubleClick或Google Display Network也将从2017年1月2号起停用Flash展示的广告内容。
今年晚些时候,Google将开始自动把Flash广告转换成HTML5格式的工作。在这之后,Klimkin推荐用户选择Adobe Animate和Google Web Designer来将Flash SWF文件专为HTML5格式。
如果你还是要播放Flash SWF文件,Klimkin推荐大家尝试Mozilla开源的“Shumway”Flash虚拟机。
以下是官方的通告。
Recently, we announced that we’re transitioning all of our display ads to HTML5. As part of this transition, we’re sunsetting the Swiffy Flash conversion tool on 1st July, 2016. After this date, the tool will no longer convert Flash SWF files to HTML5. We will continue to serve the Swiffy runtimes, so any files you convert before the sunset date will continue to play.
Today more consumers are using the web in HTML5 compatible environments than Flash-compatible environments. In order to reach as large an audience as possible, we encourage everyone to transition to HTML5 authoring.
Developers who currently create Flash SWF files have several ways to switch to HTML5 including Adobe Animate and Google Web Designer. If you need to play an existing Flash SWF file in your browser alone, you might be able to use Mozilla’s Shumway.