IIRC there was a central registry of religion in the Netherlands that had the same effect. Can't find anything on that now, though (it's mentioned in Wikipedia in an unsourced paragraph; I think I first read about it on HN, actually).
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Tangent: the info pages on the Anne Frank House site have sections cycling through different pastel background colours.[0] I've wondered before whether something like that would the brain acquire context in a long page, making comprehension more like that of a physical book. Seeing it implemented, it doesn't seem to help. I think being able to easily flip to a previous page and back was one of the advantages of printed paper, so maybe a sticky TOC with the same colours or a minimap scrollbar would allow that? Actually, why not have that standard in browsers?
Hmm, the concept of coloured sections was known in 2013 already.[1]
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Tangent: the info pages on the Anne Frank House site have sections cycling through different pastel background colours.[0] I've wondered before whether something like that would the brain acquire context in a long page, making comprehension more like that of a physical book. Seeing it implemented, it doesn't seem to help. I think being able to easily flip to a previous page and back was one of the advantages of printed paper, so maybe a sticky TOC with the same colours or a minimap scrollbar would allow that? Actually, why not have that standard in browsers?
Hmm, the concept of coloured sections was known in 2013 already.[1]
[0] https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/go-in-depth/netherla...
[1] https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/62808/website-layout-...