Is the order or sequence of rules in CSS significant?

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Is the order, or sequence, of rules in CSS significant?

This post says that it matters: <a href="http://dotnetstories.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/order-of-css-rules-matters/" rel="noreferrer">Order of CSS rules matters!!!!!!!!!!</a>

I haven't noticed anything about this in the CSS spec.

Should <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/cascade.html#specificity" rel="noreferrer">Calculating a selector's specificity</a> say that if-and-only-if two rules have the same specificity, then it's the later of the two rules (i.e. whichever rule is defined after the previous rule) that's the effective rule?