some Markdown cells are not rendered properly

[jablka]

hello,
I have noticed that in JupyterLab it is much easier for example to render some image.
You can simply type in the markdown cell:
<img src="../pics/sample_image.png" width="800" >
and the image is rendered properly.

However when opened in VSCode this code doesn't work, image is not shown.

I know that it is perhaps not the proper "markdown" style, the code is rather "html" style.
But why not render it intuitively as JupyterLab does?