External Page
Imagine you are an Air Traffic Controller. You are looking at the schedule of the Incoming and Outgoing flights from the Airport. Along with the schedule, you have a Live Weather feed from an external website on your Page.
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There can be a static page like Wikipedia which provides the context / definition / information about your table data.
If you are viewing an data from an external webpage, it is possible via the External Page component in Rapid Platform.
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The external page will show the information as configured at the preferences level. You cannot change the URL / External Page setting from Explorer.
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The size and position of the component is also set at the preferences level in Designer and the same reflects on your Page in Explorer. You cannot resize or reposition the component on your Page in Explorer.