Adobe recently posted two new tools to their Labs Web site: Adobe Story, a tool for collaborative film/TV script editing, and Squiggly, a spell checking library for Flex 3-based applications (including AIR applications).

Story is interesting not just because it's built around the principle of collaboration during script development, but also because it appears to be the first in a new approach to end-to-end video production that Adobe is taking. Adobe has the tools to handle everything from "planning to playback," as they call it, but now they just need to figure out how to fit everything together. My guess is that the applications in the CS5 version of the Adobe Production collection is going to focus a lot on inter-app integration.

Squiggly will certainly be handy for anyone who does rich text editing in a Flex-based application, though there's no guarantee that this library will make it in to a production release. Adobe states that they are trying to guage the level of interest in such a library on the Labs page for the tool, so it may be that they don't ever take it beyond "Labs quality." There's a link to a demo of Squiggly on the Labs page for the tool, so you can see how it works without downloading a thing.