The Spry Prerelease 1,6 got updated to support the release of Adobe AIR 1.0. They not only updated the files to support the release of AIR 1.0, but they also included allot of fixes!

Adobe
Spry 1.6.1—Ensuring Adobe AIR compatibiity

With Spry 1.6.1, the latest release of Spry, you’ll get features, samples and documentation that enable you to add Ajax goodness to your pages without having to sacrifice adherence to web standards or best-practices. We have also made changes to the framework to ensure that we work well in the Adobe AIR space.

With this release they also included some new functionality in to the Spry:region’s. Using the Function:: Method for Spry Processing. This is a new way of processing and checking data.

Instead of using:

<div spry:if="'{firstname}' == 'Edward'">

U can now build have a custom check for it, we can do the same by doing this:

<script>

function checkName(rgn, doIt)
    {
     return doIt('{name}') == 'Adobe Studio 8';
    }

</script>

<div spry:if="function::checkName">

And for those who haven’t noticed it yet, they included the Spry Rating Widget in the download to. I will go more in depth about these in my next articles