diff --git a/addons/base/controllers/main.py b/addons/base/controllers/main.py
index 6f63e5c7e24..178a804d0da 100644
--- a/addons/base/controllers/main.py
+++ b/addons/base/controllers/main.py
@@ -1,19 +1,23 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
-import base64, glob, os, re
+import base64
+import csv
+import glob
+import operator
+import os
+import re
+import simplejson
+import textwrap
+import xmlrpclib
 from xml.etree import ElementTree
 from cStringIO import StringIO
 
-import operator
-import simplejson
+import cherrypy
 
 import openerpweb
 import openerpweb.ast
 import openerpweb.nonliterals
 
-import cherrypy
-import xmlrpclib
-import csv
 
 # Should move to openerpweb.Xml2Json
 class Xml2Json:
@@ -86,6 +90,27 @@ def concat_files(file_list):
     files_concat = "".join(files_content)
     return files_concat
 
+home_template = textwrap.dedent("""<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html style="height: 100%%">
+    <head>
+        <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
+        <title>OpenERP</title>
+        %(javascript)s
+        <script type="text/javascript">
+            $(function() {
+                QWeb = new QWeb2.Engine();
+                openerp.init().base.webclient("oe");
+            });
+        </script>
+        <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/base/static/src/img/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/>
+        %(css)s
+        <!--[if lte IE 7]>
+        <link rel="stylesheet" href="/base/static/src/css/base-ie7.css" type="text/css"/>
+        <![endif]-->
+    </head>
+    <body id="oe" class="openerp"></body>
+</html>
+""")
 class WebClient(openerpweb.Controller):
     _cp_path = "/base/webclient"
 
@@ -115,40 +140,21 @@ class WebClient(openerpweb.Controller):
 
     @openerpweb.httprequest
     def home(self, req, s_action=None):
-        template ="""<!DOCTYPE html>
-        <html style="height: 100%%">
-        <head>
-            <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
-            <title>OpenERP</title>
-            %s
-            <script type="text/javascript">
-            $(function() {
-                QWeb = new QWeb2.Engine(); 
-                openerp.init().base.webclient("oe"); 
-            });
-            </script>
-            <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/base/static/src/img/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/>
-            %s
-            <!--[if lte IE 7]>
-            <link rel="stylesheet" href="/base/static/src/css/base-ie7.css" type="text/css"/>
-            <![endif]-->
-        </head>
-        <body id="oe" class="openerp"></body>
-        </html>
-        """.replace('\n'+' '*8,'\n')
-
         # script tags
         jslist = ['/base/webclient/js']
         if 1: # debug == 1
             jslist = manifest_glob(['base'], 'js')
-        js = "\n    ".join(['<script type="text/javascript" src="%s"></script>'%i for i in jslist])
+        js = "\n        ".join(['<script type="text/javascript" src="%s"></script>'%i for i in jslist])
 
         # css tags
         csslist = ['/base/webclient/css']
         if 1: # debug == 1
             csslist = manifest_glob(['base'], 'css')
-        css = "\n    ".join(['<link rel="stylesheet" href="%s">'%i for i in csslist])
-        r = template % (js, css)
+        css = "\n        ".join(['<link rel="stylesheet" href="%s">'%i for i in csslist])
+        r = home_template % {
+            'javascript': js,
+            'css': css
+        }
         return r
 
 class Database(openerpweb.Controller):