How To Ink To Another .html Page Within Chrome Extension/app?

I am building a chrome app for a client that will run in kiosk mode to display in their stores. Right now I have an index.html page that links to about 30 other pages. However, whe

Solution 1:

Navigation is disabled for the Chrome Apps platform. In theory you are supposed to make single-page apps - so your turn on/off approach is the "intended" one.

No-one stops you from having several windows though - suppose you have an options page, it wouldn't be strange to open it separately (via chrome.app.window.create)

As stdob mentions in comments, a workaround may be possible by using <webview> with a partition blessed to show local resources. It's not clear though if it will allow access to apps APIs.