What is the difference between .cab and .xpi?
- Extension
- .cab
- .xpi
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Developer
- Data
- Developer
- Microsoft
- W3C's Efficient Extensible Interchange Working Group
- Description
- A CAB file is a Windows Cabinet file saved in an archive format native to Microsoft Windows that supports .ZIP, Quantum, and LZX data compression algorithms. CAB files contain compressed data and is used for Windows software installations such as system files, network components, and device drivers.
- 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/vnd.ms-cab-compressed
- application/x-xpinstall
- Sample
- sample.cab
- Wikipedia
- .cab on Wikipedia
- .xpi on Wikipedia