Web pages on the canvas
Website views
Use a live page, choose how your web node opens and return to the canvas when a site needs its own tab.
A web node opens in a view the page supports. Some websites work inside Glob. Some read better as an article in Glob reader. Others need a separate browser tab. The same saved link can offer several choices.
Enter a live page
Double-click or zoom into the node. When the live view is available, the site appears over the node's inside canvas. The surrounding Glob controls remain available, including the rail and side panel. On a phone, the page leaves room for the bottom bar.
Use the website's own controls inside the page. Clicking in the website gives it the keyboard. If Glob says Keys are going to the site. Click the frame edge to come back., click the edge around the page before using a Glob shortcut.
To leave, choose Back to canvas. You can also zoom out using the edge around the page, or press Escape when Glob has the keyboard. Scrolling inside the website scrolls that site; use the surrounding edge for the way out.
Glob keeps the live page open only while you are inside it. Returning to it loads the view again, so save work in the website before leaving or switching views.
Choose how your node opens
If the web node belongs to your account and has more than one available view, right-click it and look under Website mode. Inside a live page, More controls also contains How this page opens.
The choices depend on the page:
| Choice | What it does |
|---|---|
| Show the site here | Opens the live website inside Glob. |
| Show the player here | Opens a supported service's player or embedded view. |
| Read in Glob reader | Opens a readable article in a Glob panel. |
| Open in a new tab | Uses the external website. |
| Show the PDF here | Uses the PDF panel where offered. |
| Recommended | Lets the page's current available views determine how it opens. |
The menu can spell out the recommended view after Recommended:. The check mark records your preference. Wait for Saved after changing the picker.
Your choice belongs to that web node. If a later check finds that the page can no longer open that way, Glob uses an available alternative. Choosing a view cannot make a website support it.
Only the account owner gets the controls for saving this preference. Being able to read a node, or help manage its community, does not by itself give you this control. Owning the Glob node also does not grant access to a website's restricted content.
Video links and other embedded views
A supported YouTube or Vimeo link can open the service's own player when you enter its web node. TikTok videos, TED talks and Loom recordings show their provider's own player the same way. The node itself is a web preview; use the player's controls after opening it.
Supported links can also open embedded views from Spotify, CodePen, Figma, SoundCloud, Sketchfab, OpenStreetMap, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, Deezer, Miro and Pinterest. A particular address must be a supported resource, such as a specific player item, design, model or map position. A service's home page or an arbitrary link on its domain does not guarantee an embedded view.
The service still decides whether a resource can play or open. Sign-in, availability and the browser can affect the result. Use Open in new tab when the embedded view cannot do what you need. A direct video-file link can remain an external link rather than opening a player inside Glob.
Provider views do not offer the article reader switch. They also do not provide article text for Glob's Find on page. Search and other controls inside a provider's view belong to that service.
Use the page controls
More controls contains these additional actions:
- Notes hides the website and reveals the node's inside canvas. Choose Show site to return. This switches what you see; it does not create a note.
- Stop removes the loaded website. Anything you had not saved in the site is lost. Resume checks the page again before loading it.
- Fullscreen, where your browser supports it, expands the website view. Use Exit fullscreen to return.
For pages with readable text, Reader view sits beside the top bar's box. Choose it to read the article, then Back to the live page to return. See Glob reader and notes and clips.
When the site needs a tab
If the page cannot open inside Glob, entering may open an external tab instead. Zooming with the wheel cannot open a browser tab directly, so Glob can leave a preview open with Open in new tab for you to choose.
Some pages that cannot show their live website can still offer Glob reader. Check the available views before assuming that leaving Glob is the only way to read them. If the page is blank or stalled, follow web page problems.
These instructions describe Glob Social in a browser. The installed desktop application can handle a web node's external-opening action in its own browser view.