Gary:
You may have seen problems in a plain HTML file if you tried to do anything with the current user in v0.7.2, too. SPServices expects to be used in a SharePoint page, but I can certainly put a check into the new SPServicesContext function to avoid throwing an error if _spUserId isn't available. I'll do this in the next alpha: 2013.01ALPHA3.
M.
You may have seen problems in a plain HTML file if you tried to do anything with the current user in v0.7.2, too. SPServices expects to be used in a SharePoint page, but I can certainly put a check into the new SPServicesContext function to avoid throwing an error if _spUserId isn't available. I'll do this in the next alpha: 2013.01ALPHA3.
M.
