One of the main drawback of siebel is its UI. It is very disappointing one. Siebel supports High interactivity (HI) as well as Standard interactivity. (SI). HI is used by employee based application like financial, call center etc. SI is meant of portal applications like eEvents. Both UIs are not attractive. HI only works on internet explorer. HI application needs to send and receive data from server asynchronously. Years ago, no browser except IE has provided this feature. IE achieved it through ActiveX components, and Siebel works fine in IE.
After the boom of Ajax & jQuery; asynchronous server communication is no more a headache. So it is high time to change UI standards & browser dependency. Open UI uses main web standards like
- HTML 4.01 Standard (HTML 5 optional)
- Since It support HTML 5. We can have canvas tag. Using sibel UI we can even animate :)
- CSS level 2.1 (CSS level 3.0 optional)
- we can use many CSS frameworks so we can change overall color and theme.
- JavaScript version 1.5
- this help us to use powerful java script libraries like jQuery, Moo tools etc
It supports
Chrome, Mozilla, IE, Safari etc..
