example notebooks - is some config required?

[housten]

I have newly installed polyglot in VS Code and the .net 7 sdk. As a notebook newbie, I am trying to get to grips with how it works so I am using some of the example files, but I don't get what I expect back. Is some configuration required or do I have false expectations or maybe I am looking in the wrong place?

Here are some examples from html.jpynb:

• for example, the first item, 'Displaying rich output', I expected it to render the html, but I get the literal html (tags and all, I mean) in the display cell after the code cell. Whereas when I run the equivalent using the magic command in the lower part of the page, it worked as I expected.
• However, the javascript alert does not result in an alert window with either of the example syntaxes. The first one resulted in ""No formatter is registered for MIME type application/javascript. Out-Display: " while nothing appeared to happen when running the magic word one.
• Regarding the custom svg MIME type I expected to get the picture but I get the xml in the display cell

I wanted to check here if I am getting expected behavior before opening an issue.

Also, as a newb, I haven't been able to find any getting started page. I was stumped on my initial attempt to open a new notebook when I got presented with .dib or .iypn filetype question and I had no idea what it meant. Is there a simple getting started guide that I missed?

thanks!