[BirdOPrey5]

OK well at least I understand the logic now.

This would be pretty easy to do be editing the bbcode file but the problem is it would need to request the file size of remote files on every page load, from a remote server. That will likely lead to much longer times for page loads, not save any time.

Thinking out loud the only practical way to do this would be when the new post is first saved- do a check for each image and if it is bigger than X bytes in size replace the [img] code with [url] code. This way the delay is only going to happen when a user submits a new post.

The major limit of this would be that if the remote file changed from a small image to a big image (or big to small) the post would remain hard-coded as an image or url based on when the post was first made. Someone would need to manually edit the post to fix that if it was a problem.

Does [bimg] bbcode you talk about do anything different then a regular [url] bbcode?