Hi folks, a question about urls... me and a good friend of mine are exploring the possibilities of either of the three scenarios for a website where each webpage has a menusystem with about 130 links.:

SCENARIO 1
the pages menu system has SHORT non-descriptive hyperlinks as well as a SHORT canonical:
<a href:"design">dutch design</a>
the pages canonical url points to e.g.: "design"

OR

SCENARIO 2
the pages menu system has SHORT non-descriptive hyperlinks wwith LONG canonical urls:
<a href="design">dutch design</a>
the pages canonical url points to: dutch-design-crazy-yes-but-always-honest

OR

SCENARIO 3
the pages menu system has LONG descriptive hyperlinks with LONG canonical urls:
<a href="dutch-design-crazy-yes-but-always-honest">dutch design</a>
the pages canonical url points to: dutch-design-crazy-yes-but-always-honest

Currently we have scenario 2... should we progress to scenario 3? All three work fine and point via RewriteMod to the same page which is fetched underwater. Now, my question is which of these is better in terms of:

• userfriendlyness (page loading times, full url visible in url bar or not)
• seo friendlyness (proper indexing due to the urls containing descriptive relevant tags)
• other concerns we forgot like possible penalties for so many words in link hrefs??

Thanks very much for your suggestions: much appreciated!