[mmahemoff]

Ideally those tools would render a file called README.md as readable HTML.

For example, w3m renders this project's README cleanly - https://ibb.co/WPDDL0d

[woodruffw]

That would be ideal, yeah. But I don’t begrudge them for failing to do so: GitHub-flavored Markdown is a significantly more complicated beast than “common” Markdown, which is itself somewhat fragmented.