Re: More on Vertigo
dreydoc, Ray, and Thread- Well after about a week of phone tag with CTXS IR, I finally have an idea of what Vertigo is about. And, lo and behold, it looks like all our speculation was correct. It's a project that allows developers to create 'rich' HTML, pretty much as Ray first posted in his notes. The key point is, it apparently still uses ICA as the delivery tool.
dreydoc- So the answer to your original inquiry: "...I must be missing something here. Is ICA the transport for Vertigo-based app's or not?" ....Appears to be, Yes. ICA is still the transport vehicle. Vertigo is an HTML developers tool. Therefore I believe my re-write of the story you linked us to is accurate. My re-write is as follows:
"The Palm demo used a version of Citrix's Vertigo application for developers to preview stock quotes and weather. Citrix's ICA protocol isn't appropriate for devices with small screen real estate like the Palm, to port to the user, full-blown Window apps. So using Vertigo, which is currently undergoing development, all of the objects in the user interface are actually re-writes of Window apps, down-sized for the Palm screen. ICA is still used to transport the app to the handheld."
Keep in mind, I certainly don't know if mobile wireless Internet is the primary target for Vertigo. The Vertigo solution may simply be the CTXS answer to the java/HTML model, but happens to work well with wireless data devices.
All in all the Vertigo branch is most interesting because notice it has nothing to do with Windows. But I can't believe this is true. I'm guessing there is a Windows connection in there somewhere. But we just don't know where yet. -MikeM(From Florida) |
