[bryanrasmussen]

>is saving 10-15 lines worth it if you need an 86.1 Kb vendor dependency?

I don't actually use jQuery any more but obviously if you are using it, you are saving the 10-15 lines every time you use one of these methods, not 10-15 lines in your whole application. I have a hard time believing that the savings of code lines will not be close to the weight of the dependency in any medium sized company codebase.