What is the difference between .ar and .xpi?
- Extension
- .ar
- .xpi
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Data
- Developer
- AT&T Bell Laboratories
- W3C's Efficient Extensible Interchange Working Group
- Description
- AR is a Unix archive file that is purposely used to develop and update static library files for creating .deb packages. Currently, its been replaced by .tar archive file for everything except static libraries.
- Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) is a binary XML format for exchange of data on a computer network. It was developed by the W3C's Efficient Extensible Interchange Working Group and is one of the most prominent efforts to encode XML documents in a binary data format, rather than plain text. Using EXI format reduces the verbosity of XML documents as well as the cost of parsing. Improvements in the performance of writing (generating) content depends on the speed of the medium being written to, the methods and quality of actual implementations.
- MIME Type
- application/x-archive
- application/x-xpinstall
- Wikipedia
- .ar on Wikipedia
- .xpi on Wikipedia