Air and spry (adding observer and addEventListener to spry regions links to open for a new window)

Question

I'm trying to add a region.addobserver and addEventListener to spry regions so the links; that come for a external feed, opens in a new(default browser) window when clicked. The on*  events in regions do not work in AIR so, is there a way to do this?
I have read a lot of the documentation on spry regions, addObserver and the addEventlistener but the samples don't deal with anything about external xml feeds with links in a spry region for a AIR app.
The closiest i saw was the gallery http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/articles/air/photo_gallery.html,  but it doesn't deal with:
links,
in a external RSS feed,
in the spry region,
to a new default browser.
Has anybody  tried this before? Can it be done?
Ex:
          <div spry:region="rssDataNews" class="SpryHiddenRegion">
          <div spry:state="loading" id="notification2">Loading feeds, please wait ...<img src="assets/spinner.gif"></div>
          <div spry:state="error">Failed to load data! Please try again later</div>
            <table width="100%" spry:state="ready">
              <tr spry:repeat="rssDataNews" class="{ds_EvenOddRow}" spry:select="mySelectClass">
                <td class="cellPad">
                <span style="font-weight:bold">{title}</span><br /><br />
                {description}<br />
                 <a href="{link}" target="_blank">[Read full article]</a><br /><br />
                </td>
              </tr>
            </table>
      <div>
The <a href > only opens the url in the native AIR window. I need it to open in a web browser.
Message was edited by: dee12345654321

Answer 1

About on* events
They do work, but not as attribute on your HTML elements, you will need to use eventlisteners to attach them on the relevant nodes.
How: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/dom_utils/add_event_listener.html
About links
Currently in Adobe AIR, its not (easily) possible to open or execute other programs on the users PC. I have seen die hard hacker user Java to get around this limitation. But i suggest you check out the Adobe AIR forum to confirm that you cant open links in the users browser.
But, Adobe AIR is basically a browser