Improve Bullet's description with suggestions from DeadZen

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 ======
 
 Bullet is a Cowboy handler and associated Javascript library for
-maintaining a persistent connection to the server irregardless of
-the browser used and the technologies available.
+maintaining a persistent connection between a client and a server.
 
-Bullet defines a common interface both client and server-side to
-facilitate the handling of such connections. Bullet also takes care
-of reconnecting automatically when the connection is lost, and of
-the optional heartbeat managed client-side.
+Bullet abstracts a general transport protocol familiar to WebSockets, and
+is equipped with several "fallback" transports. Bullet will automatically
+use one of these when the browser used is not able to support WebSockets.
+
+A common interface is defined for both client and server-side to easily
+facilitate the handling of such connections. Bullet additionally takes care
+of reconnecting automatically whenever a connection is lost, and also
+provides an optional heartbeat which is managed on the client side.
 
 Today Bullet only supports websocket and long-polling transports.