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 <h1 align="center">🦉 <a href="https://odoo.github.io/owl/">Odoo Web Library</a> 🦉</h1>
 
+_A web framework for structured, dynamic and maintainable applications_
+
 ## Project Overview
 
-The Odoo Web Library (OWL) is a small 
+The Odoo Web Library (OWL) is a small
 UI framework intended to be the basis for the [Odoo](https://www.odoo.com/) Web Client, and hopefully many
 other Odoo related projects. OWL's main feature is a _declarative component system_, with QWeb as a template engine, asynchronous rendering, and an underlying virtual dom.
 
-If you are interested, you can find a discussion on what makes OWL different
-from React and Vue [here](doc/comparison.md)
+**Try it online!** An online playground is available at [https://odoo.github.io/owl/playground](https://odoo.github.io/owl/playground) to let you experiment with the OWL framework.
 
-## What makes OWL different
+## OWL's design principles
+
+OWL is designed to be used in highly dynamic applications where changing
+requirements are common, code needs to be maintained by large teams.
 
 - **XML based**: templates are based on the XML format, which allows interesting
-  applications.  For example, they could be stored in a database and modified
+  applications. For example, they could be stored in a database and modified
   dynamically with `xpaths`.
 - **templates compilation in the browser**: this may not be a good fit for all
   applications, but if you need to generate dynamically user interfaces in the
-  browser, this is very powerful.  For example, a generic form view component
+  browser, this is very powerful. For example, a generic form view component
   could generate a specific form user interface for each various models, from a XML view.
 - **no toolchain required**: this is extremely useful for some applications, if,
   for various reasons (security/deployment/dynamic modules/specific assets tools),
   it is not ok to use standard web tools based on `npm`.
 
-
-## Try it online!
-
-An online playground is available at [https://odoo.github.io/owl/playground](https://odoo.github.io/owl/playground) to let you experiment with the OWL framework.
+Owl is not designed to be fast or small (even though it is quite good on those
+two topics). If you are interested in a comparison with React or Vue, you will
+find some more information [here](doc/comparison.md).
 
 # Example
 
@@ -46,7 +49,7 @@ class ClickCounter extends owl.Component {
 }
 
 const qweb = new owl.QWeb();
-const counter = new ClickCounter({qweb});
+const counter = new ClickCounter({ qweb });
 counter.mount(document.body);
 ```