I've never seen chaining of modifiers fail. I think you're good to go in all browsers still in use today, if not all browsers that ever implemented CSS.
EDIT: Nope. Just watched IE6 choke on it. Plugged this example into Adobe Browserlab, and both the class attributes hello world
and world
respond to the .hello.world
selectors.
Booooo, IE6. IE7 is good to go on that point, though.
Here's a blog post describing the issue (IE just reads the last class, it would seem), and offering the following stupid but necessary fix if IE6 is required: <p class="one two one-two">
Matchu
2010-10-15 02:59:38