What is the difference between .rar and .xpi?
- Extension
- .rar
- .xpi
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Data
- Developer
- Eugene Roshal
- W3C's Efficient Extensible Interchange Working Group
- Description
- A RAR file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed with RAR compression. It uses a higher compression ratio than typical ZIP compression and incorporates a proprietary compression algorithm that is now used by other compressors, including 7-Zip for its .7Z files. RAR files may be extracted using a variety of programs.
- 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-rar-compressed
- application/x-xpinstall
- Sample
- sample.rar
- Wikipedia
- .rar on Wikipedia
- .xpi on Wikipedia