What consequences emerge from placing an html selector or wildcard (*) selector before or after the other?

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Based on the CSS Tricks article, Inheriting box-sizing Probably Slightly Better Best-Practice, the following approach to resetting the box-model is recommended:

html { box-sizing: border-box; } *, *:before, *:after { box-sizing: inherit; }

However, what happens when we change the order of these declarations to the following?:

*, *:before, *:after { box-sizing: inherit; } html { box-sizing: border-box; }

Is there a significant difference, and if so what are its consequences?

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