What is the difference between .dmg and .xpi?
- Extension
- .dmg
- .xpi
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Data
- Developer
- Apple
- W3C's Efficient Extensible Interchange Working Group
- Description
- It is a raw format image file that is developed in MacOS. The mountable disk image data is compressed or encrypted at times and is mainly used for installing Mac application that has been downloaded online.
- 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-apple-diskimage
- application/x-xpinstall
- Wikipedia
- .dmg on Wikipedia
- .xpi on Wikipedia