Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:36:56 +0200 - Didier Kryn <kryn@???>:

>     1) If I write a file in the Markdown format, my browser doesn't
> know how to display it.

Markdown is a markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text
editor. So, to display the formatted text you need a Markdown viewer or a
Markdown editor with the preview feature (i.e. ReText).

>     2) If I point my browser to the same file through a server at
> localhost, it still can't display it.

I think that's right. A Markdown file is not an HTML file... There are
various browser extension to "add" to the browse the ability to display the
formatted content of a md file.

>     3) If I point the same browser to some README.md file in the git
> store, now it can display it.

>     4) If I look at the content of the README.md file, it is just plain
> HTML!

The git store display you the content of the md file formatted as HTML.

>     Is somebody lying, or is there some mechanism in the servers which
> convert md to html, or what else?

That is I mean.


Regards
alexus


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