The animation subsystem has several areas that still look up or reference data via layer id. We'd like to replace all of these with element id and property tree node refs/data.
A majority of the changes required are in cc, but completing this work will also for example allow us to remove setting layer id in cc property tree nodes, and compositor element id in cc layers, in Blink's PaintArtifactCompositor.
See also:
http://crbug.com/702774#c5
http://crbug.com/707281#c12
http://crrev.com/2800983002
There have been a number of other involved bugs and discussion to date, please feel free to de-dupe this against those or those here as applicable.
Comment 1 by wkorman@chromium.org
, Apr 7 2017