[wp-hackers] Is WP_INSTALLING constant here to stay?

[Dino Termini]

Hello, folks,

just a quick note to let you know that I ended up following your advice 
and I updated my plugin to use WP's built-in Ajax functionality. At 
least you won't kick my plugin out of the repository, especially now 
that it has been downloaded more than 300k times :) I'll release the new 
version, which includes this new 'engine', as soon as I get some 
feedback from the group of people who is testing it.

Thank you,
Dino.

On 1/22/2013 8:20 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2013, at 12:29 PM, Andrew Nacin <wp at andrewnacin.com> wrote:
>> I would avoid this. Here's but five reasons why:...
>
> In general, 99.9% of the time I agree with you. However there's one use-case we ran into where we had to do otherwise and I'm wondering is there is a way to do it the "right" way and still meet the UX requirement?
>
> We were building a Facebook-like predictive search drop-down and we ran into latency issues that the person developing it said he could only resolve the latency issues by directly loading a PHP file via AJAX and setting the SHORTINIT constant to true before including wp-load.php.  I won't name the person who wrote it but he has an extremely high reputation on WordPress Answers.
>
> So how would you in a plugin set SHORTINIT which bypasses loading plugins and still use WordPress' core AJAX handler given that SHORTINIT is crucial to achieving reasonable latency?  I really hope there is a way to do this but looking at his code I can't currently envision what that would be.
>
> -Mike
>
>
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